Official Organ of the Irish Tourist Association
VoL. XIV. No. 10. ]l:LY, 1939. .Complimentary
KiIliney Bay, near Dublin, with (from left) Bray Head and the Little and Big Sugarloaves (the Silver Spears). iRISH TRA VEL July, 1939
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VOL. XIV JULY, 1939. No. 10 --======-===0
YOU MAY ENJOY THE IRISH MOUNTAINS WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR NECK
is from Dr. R. Lloyd Praeger' "IN these motoring days, when the contingent on an "in-and-out-the ideal of so many holiday-makers window" sort of momentum. Foreword to Jlountaineering in is to roar through the country But that is all ·too abstru e and Ireland, by C. W. Wall. (Dublin The Irish Tourist Association, I .). at 50 miles an hour "- I) begins anyhow there i still one holiday the preface to one of the latest left which eliminates the necessity "To quot~ Dr. Praeger again, little books. for analysis ince there is ample .1.Jr. Wall s chapters will appeal leisure for equanimity en route. You to the ordinary person who likes a Are the motorists ever indignant may not get far but your mind will good tramp 7.£·ithout wantinu 10 risll at this sort of thing? There u ed travel illimitable space. There will his neck over it." Believe it or to be a religious sect somewhere in be no roaring on the way unless believe it not, that sentence carries the wilder part of the world who your favourite corn reacts into a the clue to more than a mountaineer were known as the Roarers, from protest. That, of course, is the ing holiday in Ireland. There is no the trenuousness of their shouted hanks' Mare holiday. Cheap, risk o~ neck or happiness over there. prayers to. Heaven. They were sociable, health-giving and not p hll1 and down dale life goes at monomaniacs, of cour e, and the undignified, with a man's body the ideal pace, and now that this imputation of a kind of monomania erect all the while and not caged book lists and describes the mountain to many of our drivers on holiday behind its combustion engine gather routes so admirably, another lure seems an ominous one. It opens ing fat, and his lower limbs gradually ha been added to Irish vacation. up the whole field of holiday going into desuetude.* D. L. KELLEHER exploration and makes us doubt This preliminary argumentative in "Coming Events." whether we really ought not to amble is in keeping with the subject. * But the motorist also has a uood analyse our pleasures a little more That sentence quoted above in time in Ireland.-Ed. "Col~~ing closely and not make our raptures dispraise of so many holiday-makers Events "). '
Principal Contents .filly Big Irish Events Page 1 Mot.or Cycling. (Dublin "100 ") We Spcnt a \\'cek in Ireland Calendar National ChampIonship. Phoenix By British .4nglel's 246-2·j,i Park, Dublin. Haces \\'cek in Galway 1'19 .. JULY _. .. 191' 3.5,7. Bowb (ehweppcs Cup- enior By Sean ](enllY 2·W -. nIL wo. ... SAT. Leaguc Competition). Dublin. Xotes and Xews of Irish Tourist -•• It • • )t 1 8. Motoring (Leinster Trophy Inter- Interest .... 251 t 3 5 6 7 8 national Car Raee). Tallaght Clonmacnois, on the Shannon .. County Dublin. ' By P. C. Jlo//oy 25:l 9 10 11 1t 13 14 15 18-20. Golf (Open Championships of "·('''·ca~tle. Ten ;\1inutcs to the Jungle 16 17 18 19 to t1 tI Ireland). Co. Down. By 'ean C. llealy 2'3.3 IB 211. Hacing (Iri,h Oak,). 'urragh ~!'(, 15 t6 t7 t8 19 Count,· Kildare. ' Curiosities Around Ireland 2;'7 211, 21. .\gricl;ltural and Horse Show Dublin\ (;rcat 11or,,' Show 2GB Clonlllel, Tipperary. . 1 \\'cnt hI' i\lotor-Ilike to Climb ~.). .\nnual SUl1l111Cr Show. ~ayalL, Croagh ['alrick ;\Icalh. By John C. ]JoyJ/l' 2(;0-2(jI EVENTS DURING MONTH. 2G tu ,\ ug. .J-. Gill[ (Open \\'eek). HJ)~slarl' Tile Irish Theat.rc. Hy" Ultt)mll!" 202 Pattern", Fairs, Fei""l'anna, (;ala", Strand, \\'exford. H,l(lio Eircann for J ul) 207 l{"g ELL! we have been to Ireland with the A.T.A. House where the corks popped merrily between speeches. W What a holiday! What a week of hard and ~o, not speeches, but an intermittent chorus of" Here's glorious sport! to all of us !" "A reel. gradley do !" as we should Wet and dry fly, spinning, dapping, trolling, ledges, say in Lancashire. float, swimming-a glossary on angling terms is needed Lancashire, Yorkshire, Birmingham, Coventry, to describe it. Over half a ton of fish-including an London (we were a motley crew) began fo drop their unexpected salmon which went away with a hundred yards of line and half a rod. . We Set Out. SUMMING UP OUR WEEK'S EXPERIENCES. At the outset, several of our tourists arrived at Central station, Manchester, in a pony chaise loaded Largest fish-Trout 2! lbs.; Pil~e 20 lbs.; Bream with ground bait and other impedimenta. This was 7t lbs.; Perch 2 lbs. picturesque but quite unnecessary; for Ireland is We were twenty in the party. replete with potatoes, bran, meal, flour and everything We were welcome everywhere. else necessary to bring the fish "on feed." But we We all over-ate ourselves. were glad of the large supply of gentles and worms we took. We all slept serenely. Arrived at Liverpool, an omnibus took us to the We all increased in weight. steamer where we turned into our bunks at once. We all got Fercely st·mburnt. The famous and charming" Alfie," Lord Mayor of We caught 1,500 lbs. offish. Dublin, joined us at breakfast on arrival, together with We en.1oyed every 'minute. various Irish officials. Our greeting was almost We are all longing to go again to Ireland with overwhelming in its hospitality and kindness. But we were I__ .~~T.A. to realise that this is only typical of what we were to experience wherever we went local accents and uncon 'ciou -ly adopt a touch of Irish on Iri h soil. brogue. We were received ,,:ith open arms and ~e wondered why our two countnes could ever entertam "Here's to all of us." any difference of opinion on anything at all, at all. V\'e are repaired, fraternally Off again to our rendezvous, Ballinasloe, ninety miles arm in arm, to the Mansion from Dublin, every mile exposing waters and scenery, July, 1939 IRISH TRAVEL which kept us all talking in a perfect babel. The gorse had never looked so golden nor the grass so green. For few of us had never been to Ireland before. Why? Our lancUords, and apparently half the town, greeted us. Our fame had gone before us! But this was nothing to the reputation we have left behind us. Over half a ton of fish, 1,500 lbs. to be exact, and caught on tackle " the like and the fine sort of which was never seen before." After dinner, a gargantuan feast of many-we went this way and that to explore the river uck which flows through the town, a fine wicl.e stream rather reminiscent of the Thames below Oxford but with alternating deeps and shallows. Assembled at supper we had a regular anglers' pow wow and made up our plans for the morrow. We found the river and tributary stream abnormally low and clear with long grassweed trailing the surface where the trout were rising. Monday and Tuesday. On Monday morning some took boat up stream and Dapping on Lough Corrib down, spinning for pike and fishing dry fly for trout with fair success. The rest of the party wandered far e\'ery time. And fight! It is amazing! One in every afield doing the same and vi iting other A.T.A. hotels. three weighed some seven pounds and more. They In short we were exploring and gathering as much had finished spawning and were in wonderful condition. information as pos ible for those who are to follow in The Shannon watershed produces bream up to 9 Our footsteps. and 10 lbs. in July and they are found in incredible Tuesday accounted for 34 pike up to IQ lbs., and 22 numbers. trout from a half to two pounds in weight. Two parties went to Finea dapping on Lake heelan. There were Thursday and Friday. twenty other boats on the lake but they only got eight Thursday was a repetition and our catch was trout among them, as the may-fly wa not yet doing prodigious. One local superstition was exploded, its share. till one of us had the mingled fortune of namely that if a large fi h breaks you, he tells the others. hooking a five or six pound trout which rushed off with For one of us caught the same bream, which had escaped fifty yards of line and broke him .round a rock, and ~ ten minutes before, still with six feet of gut trailing twenty pound pike which succumbed to a wagtaIl from his mouth. minnow on his light caster and Felton "cross wind" Friday we all went far afield, to Shannon Bridge and after an hour's fight. The rest of the part~ accounted other places; some of us not fishing at all but taking for some fine pike and perch. The trout III the lake trips round the countryside. Jn fact during the whole generally run from three to four pounds. week s~veral only visited the river an hour or so a day. There IS so much to see and so many friendly folk to We Got Among the Bream. talk to. Wednesday was our field day: we "got among the On the Fr~day one of us had secretly baited up, near bream!" We shall never forget that day. None of hannon Bndge, a deep hole which he had known us will. Only 83 fish, but they averaged 5 lbs. apiec~ ! previously, intending to have an hour or two with the On rare occasions in England we may catch more m perch after an afternoon with trout and pike. But he number, but in individual weight the Irish lad.s have it was to be disappointed. For there sat three of his pals who had found the spot and had accounted for two hundredweight of fish which they weighed and returned to the water higher up stream. "There's nowt left but snigs!" " Au Revoir," on Saturday. . Sa~urday was mostly ~evoted to packing up and blddmg a reluctant au revmr to the many friends we had made. It was a terrific send off. The street was c~owded. We organised two" sing-songs" during Our VI it, two regular Ir~sh night full of fun and frolic. So now we are savmg t p for our return visit later in the year. For we are all determined to hurry back as soon as possible to one or other of the dozen A.T.A. centre where, we are assured the fish are even more plentiful, larger, stronger, grander; the accommodation and ~he food even .better; the people more kindly the gIrlS more beautIful. We. don't. be~ieve it possible But we shall make a personal mvestIgatIOn as soon and On one of Connemara's lakes as often as we can. 247 IRISH TRA VEL July, 1939 IComingto Ireland Stay at the Leading Hotel in the Glorious West- EGLINTON HOTEL SALTHILL GALWAY Phone: SALTHILL 25. 'With 62 B<>drooms, H. & C. 'Yater all room. . Spacious Dining-room and I"oungcs. ce th<.' large Ship. Loung<>, with Promenade Deck, and home-mad!' Rugs \\ith Scene. of Connemara, etc. Fully Hccn. ed. Fr<>e Garage and Porous hard Tennis COurtH for Guests. PropTict'ress: MRS. S. EMERSON. GALWAY Telephone: Galway 28 LYDON'S The Savoy Cinema RESTAURANT FOR SUPREME COMFORT AND ENTERTAINMENT Morning Cotfee :: Afternoon Teas Hot and Cold Luncheons Our JULY Programmes include: TOO HOT TO HANDLE Ices, Minerals, Chocolates and Cigarettes MARIE ANTOINETTE SWEETHEARTS DAILY 5-Course LUNCH 2/6 THREE LOVES HAS NANCY BOYS' TOWN THE CITADEL TOURIST PARTIES, ETC. CATERED FOR. SHINING HOUR Sea.ting Accommodation, 200 Opon from !l a.m. to 11.30 p.m., including unday. and a MIDNIGHT MATINEE on each Galway Race night Po)' e.l)('ellent jood and service SCf Note Addross: Elltraneo:- at 'll/or]f'1'ate 'rates, 1'18ft the avoy a e I Nntral and 'fIUJst ('omjo)'table 5 SHOP STREET 'Phone 143 July. 1939 IRISH TRA VEL THE GALWAY RACES' West of Ireland's Great Sporting Week BIG MEETINGS ON WEDNESDAY 2nd and THURSDAY 3rd AUGUST ACE week in Galway. What By SEAN KENNY and enjoyment which invariably glamour that phrase conjures prevail at this pleasant reunion of R up ! This year, the Galway and the rail approaching the stand the sport loving people of Galway. Races are being held on the second has been extended to below the The meeting was first instituted and third of August and entries for starting-point for the Galway Plate, by the members of the Galway the two days have, to use an for which the stake this year will Blazers Hunt the most famous pack American cliche, reached an "all of foxhounds in the whole realm be over £1,000. of hunting lore. Then came the time high "-in simple language, It is interesting to add that since time when a few sporting gentlemen a record breaking figure. For the the present committee took over ~ast took the matter in hands to place three months a famous Galway the management of Galway races the meeting on its proper plane. ftrm of contractors have been busily a quarter of a century ago, over engaged in erecting a new modern Captain Wilson Lynch who gave the £40,000 has been expended on roof stand at the famous Ballybrit land on which the course is situate improvements. Councillor Jos. helped financially and with' the Course. This is but one of the Young is chairman of the committee, assistance of several others including numerous improvements upon which and the other eight members are: the race committee has entered Mr. Hubert Davis (who rode Tom ~r. Daniel Comyn, LL.D.; AId. and the total cost of the improve Tit, the first winner of the Galway Joseph F. Costello, the ~1ayor; ments is in the neighbourhood of Dr. D. V. 1Ionis, Mr. Christopher Plate), the meeting advanced by £5,000. Kerin, Oranmore; 11r. M. T. leaps and bounds. To-day it is one of the greatest steeplechase Improvements. Donnellan, Mr. Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Mr. T. McDermott Kelly, M.R.C.V.S. meetings in Ireland. The car park leading to the Athenry, and Dr. Michael Horses and Riders. enclosure has been extended con McDonogh. Mr. J. Gavin is the siderably. and will now afford secretary. Some splendid horses have won accommodation for 4,000 vehiclesl the Galway Plate and some of the while the enclosure itself has been Great Steeplechase. best riders both professional and extended to a quarter of a mile. There is no need to hark back on amateur have ridden successfully The 60 yard square paddock has the glorious sporting traditions of over the intricate course at Ballybrit. been moved back 60 yards, whilst this famous gathering, not only of Some of the fences are very the totalisator has been moved the Tribes and their descendants formidable, particularly the regula about 20 yards, and new concrete but of the sportsmen and the sports tion. It takes a clever horse to get betting stands have been built women from the whole of Ireland around at the pace they go without parallel to it. In addition to the who will wend their way across the a fall. Tipperary Boy won the enormously increased accommoda Shannon to join scenes of revelry (Continued overl£aj) tion thus afforded in the enclosure, paths and a considerable area around READY FOR THE RACES the two stands have been laid in concrete, so that conditions will be much more pleasant even in the worst weather. A novel innovation is a ladie ' park, which has been built at the Galway end, with a rock garden in ~, the centre, flower-beds, seats, and ..,," :.. ,_ -_ !--_.-- a cocktail bar. ~II;;5z-··!II'·· ~ Four new turnstiles have been ...... "~': !!!!!!.I!:~II'III1IilII;IIIIl1~'~I:~::::i~11 erected lmder a concrete entrance, .' "I'.": 'Ill 11:"1" 1'1 · ....1 a new ticket office has been buil1., """'1'., d' . I "Ii ,r 'I' together with a new water tank to t. 'Ill"h'lllIl • .' supply the jockeys' rooms. There "'''"i) is a three-way exit from the car park. A twelve-foot concrete wall ltas been erected around the enlarged enclosure, trees have been planted, The New Stand adjoining the old one at the Galway Races course at BalIybrlt. IR/5H TRAVEL July, 1939 Galway Plate on three different the Galway Plate twice and was Carnival. occasions, a feat that has never third at the third attempt. He was Socially, Galway adopts the spirit been equalled since. In his first also trained by Ussher. He was the of carnival for the week. Visitors two races he was ridden by Tommy best horse that ever won at Galway can cool off in the evenings by Moran but in his last victory he and was killed accidentally while taking a bus ride to althill an.d was ridden by that great jockey, being schooled at Brackenstown. bathing in the waters of the AtlantIc Terry Kavanagh. The name of that, ever fresh and invigorating, Ussher is synonymous with Galway This year's Plate promises more lave the shores of althill, Galway's and Mr. Harry Ussher steered Ash excitement than ever. Amongst seaside suburb. At night there is brooke to victory. Mr. Ussher was the big field will be found all the dancing at the Pavilion, althill or in the greatest trainer and the be t crack horses in Ireland to-day. the covered m BE READY FOR G.ll.W_J Y RAC1';S Have your Dance Frocks, Dress SUits, etc., CLE~ NED by-- EIRE HOTEL The GALWAY CLEANERS UPPER SALTHILL CROSS ST. ~NE-DAYSERiIICE GALWAY GALWAY 11 O'NEILL'S HOTEL and RESTAURANT I Tel. 47 EYRE STREET GALWAY (ofT Eyre Square) :! millS. frem Railway Station. E:\tra accommodation rc·cently con~iructcd. Can now seat lOO persollS comfortably. Hot and Cold Baths. BO'1ts meets Steamers and Trains. ON J:3EA lHWK'l'. BjiJtjlDE GULfi' Special Terms for Tourists and Excursion Parties. LINKS AND BA'l'llING POOLS I ~~===~~=== -= 40 Bedrooms, Modernly Curran's Hotel Furnished with O'Dearest Fully Licensed Matt. H. & C. all Bed rooms. Ice Crearr. Parlour Eyre Square .. Galway .Fully Licensed. B1iS stolJS at door. Recently Renovated. ew Lounge Bar. Up-to-Date. El ctric Light throughout. Free Garage. Terms Moderate. Apply MANAGERESS. MRS. K. BIRMINGHAM, Propr. Coiffeur de Dames CLONMACNOIS. MAISON CARR I A new book on Clonmacnoi (visited by hundreds of THE MAGNET ll tourists each year) has just been written by Brendan EGLlNTON STREET (O~~~g.E) GALWAY _I Molloy- Guide to the Ruins of Clonmacnois-and is "--- published at sixpence. (ee page 253 of this is ue). WARD'S PRIVATE HOTEL 1\ CROAGH PATRICK. HOT AND COLD WATER IN BEDROOMS unday, July 30th, is Garland Sunday, the clay of Lig~~~:;ge ;:It:~i;;:on~t~;::;OOking great National Pilgrimage to Croagh Palrirk. (Sec 11 Electric Sea pages 260 and 261 of lhi issue). 250 July, 1939 IRISH TRAVEL NOTES AND NEWS £70 for Anglers .. L. Russell Muirhead .... Holidays on Horseback £70 for Anglers. IRISH WINDOW IN BOSTON £70 in cash prizes will be distributed to lucky anglers who catch the biggest fi h in Ireland, this year. The LT.A. has put up a sum of £50 towards a prize fund for coarse fishing competitions among members of the Anglers' Tourist Association who will operate the whole scheme and who have added a further £20 to the fund, bringing it up to a total of £70. The final date for notification of catches is November 1st, 1939 and full particulars of the competitions can be had from the Anglers' Tourist Association, Spear Chambers, Spear Street, Manchester. By the way, on pages 246 amI. 247 of this number of Ir£sh Travel, we publish the comment of the twenty British Angler who fished our rivers during Whitsuntide this year (under the auspice of the A.T.A.). They're coming back again! Southern Ireland for Holidays. l 0 le s an authority than Mr. L. Russell .:\IuiIhead, Editor of the far-famed Muirhead Guides (his father From a photograph of the Cunard White Star" Irish Window" founded them and Guide books have been in the family display ;n their Boston Offices, U.S. A. during tile last fortnight in for fifty years) thinks Ireland a grand place for holidays. "Uay. The word" I REL El ND" is a" cut-out" and stands to To quote direct from the Cover of all the, sixpenny the front ofthe window near the glass (coloured green). To the left Penguin Guides, " he regards Southern Ireland, Central IS a fisherman, to the rigllt a horseman. The large outline map of Ireland is ofthe pictorial type made by the well known Ernest France and Portugal as the best places for spending Dudley Chase, which shows small typical scenic views against holt'days outside England." each. of the plaCf's indicated 011 the map. What more can one say? Here indeed is much in little: a world of praise in one lacon,ic sentence. Holidays on Horseback. Gala at Arklow. Fresh from their recent successe in Hungary, Norway Sweden and England, "Holidays on Horseback" August Bank Holiday, Monday, 7th, is the day of are, this year, invading Ireland for the first time. A the Arklow Gala, at which the one mile men's swimming really attractive leaflet issued by Centropa Tours, Ltd., championship of Ireland will be decided. Arklow has Mayfair Place, Piccadilly, London, gives full details held many successful Galas in past years and no ef.fort of this very novel type of holiday which combines both is being spared to make the coming one full of attractIOns sport and travel. for visitors. It is organised and will be operated by the The tour in Ireland is a two weeks' one, from Dublin wimming Section of the Arklow Coursing Club. back to Dublin at an all-in cost of 25 2 guineas. The riding tarts from Adare on the second day, and the Island Name for Each Bedroom. route includes visits to Killarney and Kerry, Limerick, Quite a remarkable feature about Ashford Castle Tipperary and the Air Base at Foyne. Approximately (the new Sports Hotel in Connemara which its owners 25 miles will be ridden daily, every night being spent hope to have functioning early this month) is that all under ~ different roof. T~e accommodation is personally the big bedrooms in the castle are named after the supervIsed by the Orgamzers and the party will be in i lands in Lough Corrib. One is called Dringeen, charge of a gentleman-leader who knows every bit of another Tober, another Cleenilaun, another Illaunree, the country intimately. and so on, each room being thus connected with the historic legends and happenings which ga\'e the islands Here and There. their ancient musical names. These names will be August Irish Travel (next month) will be the 1939 retained (as will also the greater portion of the castle Pictorial ouvenir Number. furniture), when the astle be omes a Hotel. * ** It is of interest that the late King George \' of "Coming Events," from which we use Mr. D. L. England shot woodcock at Ashford in 1907 when, as Kelleher's ~elightful ~i~tle essays each month, (see Prince of Wales, he visited the demesne. His party page 245), IS the offICIal organ of The Travel and killed 90 brace of 'cock in one day and he himself Indll,tnal Deyelopment Association of Great Britain declared Ashford the best woodcock centre in the world. and Ireland. IRISH TRAVEL I It means a lot • • • ... to know your film is faster than your subject. Clear, crisp lines without a sign of movement are then a certainty. Such a film is GEVAERT EXPRESS (SUPERCHROM). peeded to 28° Sch: it has both speed and exceptional l:1titude, enabling difficult subjects under indifferent lighting conditions to ~be tackled sueces fully. on Gevaert Photo Products, 49, Clarendon Street, Dublin. Telephone: Dublin 724-18 25 2 July, 1939 IR IS HTRA VEl. An Ancient Irish University City CLONMACNOIS in County Offaly Founded by st. Ciaran in 549 A.D. LO MAC. OIS (The Meadow of the Descendants ?f os), the burial place of the nobility of Ireland C IS about fourteen miles south of Athlone on the Offaly bank of the river Shannon, and bounded on the east and south by sand hills which form part of the *Eascar Riada. It was in this lonely place that Ciaran ~'lac an t-Saoir founded his second and last monastery, ID the year 549. Coming by Water. The approach by water to Clonmacnois is to be pre AT CLONMACNOIS ferred, the great advantage of travelling by boat being Inside the boundary wall of the cemetery are the ~hat you may extend your journey to Clonfert which IS about twenty miles from Athlone; and at Clonfert ruins of ten churches and in the sacristy of the cathedral can be seen the ancient doorwav of St. Brendan's are ' housed' some of the burial slabs of the 8th, 9th, Monastery. • loth, nth and 12th centuries. Some Landmarks. Twelfth Century Church. About seven or eight minutes' walk from the east . The first object of interest to be seen at Clonmacnois gate, along the Pilgrim's Road, the visitor comes on IS ~he old Norman Castle built by John De Grey, Lord the beautiful ruin known as the Nuns' Church, built ChIef Justice of Ireland in the year 1210. in the year of n68 by Princess Devorgilla, wife of ~o the east .of the castle is .O'Rorke's Tower (904), O'Rorke, Prince of Brefny. In n58 while O'Rorke whIch has lost ItS topmost portIOn. According to Irish was on pilgrimage his wife eloped with her former ~istorians this tower was completed by Abbot Malone lover, Dermot Mac ~ILlrrough, King of l.einster, who was, ~n II30, but two storeys of it were knocked by lightning however, forced to restore her, "and the feud thus In II35. e tablished in n66 led Mac Mz{rrough to seek the help of •" E(,scar Riada," singular gravel hills or ridges which Henry I I, and thus prepared the way for the invasion i ntersect Ireland front enst to west. of Ireland by Strongbow." PATRICK C. )IOLLOY. WORLD FAIR -1939 - NEW YORK :L'elephone: SALTffiLL 40 Combine a visit to the I World Fair, New York with a " Continental" holi ~ .. --~ --- ..· day afloat and enjoy the finest France has to offer in ROCKLAND .'l ••• ~ I~... Luxury, Cuisine and Service. -- ;;~ ::::~ ·I' ' ··...... li,:=r .."1 I COBH - NEW YORK HOTEL ':::::::E~;!:::!'~ by the great luxury liner .. ~ ~ II~ "- b~ •••..•... 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A Llster Advisory Engineer wllI call Agents 10r- without obligation V and submit a report HARDY BROTHERS, ALLCOC~ on supplying elec tricity or water. and other well-known makers of Superior Tackle. R.A.L1STER Bc CO.• LTD. 10 BURGH QUAY HELY'S DAME STREET DUBLIN 'Phone: 72575 254 july, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL TEN MINUTES TO THE JUNGLE FROM THE HEART OF DUBLIN CITY By SEAN C. HEALY Dublin's Zoo is the second oldest " Sitting pretty, with trunk up, for luck, at the in the world Dublin Zoo." VI ITED the Dublin Zoological Phoenix Park. Even if there were the globe and getting them to live Gardens in the hope of hearing no strange animals or exotic birds happily together in the same Zoo? I interesting tales of wild animal to attract the visitor, the natural "Healthy animals are contented life and of exciting encounters with beauty of the Gardens would be a animals," is the Dublin Zoo's motto. e caped wolves; I even toyed with great attraction in itself. A big Every effort is made to give the the idea of asking the "man in feature is the magnificent lake inmates ufficient room and induce charge" to let me stroke the p~"Y nestling in a deep w00ded hollow them to exerci e: there are no ur tweek the whiskers of a WIld and there are many lawns and cramped cages to break the hearts jungle cat. If I have nothing grassy slopes where one may wander of animals accustomed to roam for sensational to record, blame Charhe in the cool shade of beautiful trees. their food. and Mistre s Susy-but more of The Lion House Via Charlie. them anon. ADMISSION The "Zoo," as it is popularly To give even a rough outline of called, is a large railed enclosure TO THE the number and types of live exhibits within the area of Dublin's famous ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS that are to be seen " at every turn" would fill a large book; we must PHOENIX PARK content ourseh'es to hit just a few of the high pots. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Charlie and Sus)' (of the opening Thursday, Friday - 1 paragraph) are tW0 chimpanzees. Saturday, Sunday and all Public As a matter of in.erest, Charlie is Holidays - - 6d. an old pal of mine. About two year ago I arri"ed at the Zoo with Children in Charge of Adults a ffi'wie camera and Charlie wa Half price. taken from hi cage for the purpose of being "shot." Lacking all desire to change his comfortable How to Live Happily. qua:ters for the ~hrill of Hollywood, This time I visited the Zoo in a he Just looked Inexpressibly bored critical mood and immediately J while ... 'veral feet of valuable film wa impressed with the idea that raced through the camera gate. here was no mere menagerie, no The Lion House was to be the.?' \ ulgar exhibit of wild animal life. first port of call on my present visit, Desc~ndant of" Nigeria," a once famous Dublin What is the secret of gathering but I stopped to shake hands with lion and ancestress of many now in Dublin Zoo. wild animals from every corner of (Please Bee page 265) 255 I R IS HTRA VEL July, I<)30 HOTE L IV ANHOE, AS OTHERS SEE US HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. ~ (A few doors from Stephen's Green). Hot and Cold Water In every Bedroom. Central g. Electric LIft Rnd Fires. Night Porter. A.A., R.I.A.C. e. Telegrams: .. SATIS.II!D, DuaLIN," Telephone' (VISITORS 611211 For the First Time.... D. MoCAUGHEY, Proprietor. . l O••ICI L1SDOONVARNA FOR MATCH-MAKING ?,c Un Fail or S101lt: oJ Desliny on llie lop 0/ './I'a Hill was Jor lanK ages Ihe Corollahon SialiC ~t" the. Kings oJ Ireland. .Standing beside. it ill r IS plctw'e is Mr. Filzpatncll 0/ Travel Plctl/res JQ1ne. LisdooJlt'a1'1la in Cmmty Clare, far:fa:med as Irela?I~'~ premier No. 9 in our Series 'jJa. has also a wide reputation /01' its match-making a~t1VltteS: I!ere mall)' visilors come for the cttre and meet, as well, thetr fate In life. of Strange Things A HAG'S BED MODEL FOR AMERICA'S WHITE HOUSE From S01/le 2,000 years 13. C. dales this old stOIll' Sll'llctHrc situated near Glam('orlh, between FCI'llIOY l~c'W aml Mitclielstowl1, and Imown as "The Hag's people lmow that A me1'ira's White House ill Wasliillgloll 1.('(/S Hed." The story goes that one of the 0' Keeffes, ~1°1elled 011 olle o/Ihe most famous pHbNc bmUings in !relcl1Id o/t1ts~er 174~ Lords of Fermoy married er. witch or a woman who H Ol/se, Dublin, built in by Cassets for tlie fIrst Duke became a witch. She was buried in this grave. li Lelnster. The design for the WhIte H~l/se was made by James ~ban, To-d~y, Excavation work carried ou,t a few years ago dis L an Irishman and a former pUP,I.of Cassets. covered the bones of an afed woman buried beneath L;'n:ster House is the meeting place of the lnsh Houses of the lnsh 'gtslat,tre_ The Dail and the Senate. the huge stones. IRISH TRA VEL July, 19}f) IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION Photo Competition, 1939. £50 IN PRIZES. The IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION is offering £50 in Prizes through the "IRISH TRAVEL" Photo graphic Competition, this surr:mer. The prizes will be awarded as follows:- FIRST PRIZE £10 (one award). SECOND PRIZE Four awards of £5 each. THIRD PRIZE Twenty awards of £1 each. These twenty-fi"e (25) cash awards will be given to the senders of the twenty-five best photographs of Irish interest submitted. The winning entries need nr)t necessarily be the best from a purely technical point e,f view, but will be those most suited to the publicity work IJ.A. Photographic Competition, 1939 GRAND STAND SEATS ENTRY COUPON CAN NOW BE BOOKED I wish to enter above Competition according to the conditions set out, and I shall accept For full particulars apply- as final.the decision of the judges appointed by the I.T.A. in connection with the Competition. I Royal Dublin Society AME . POSTAL ADDRESS Ball's Bridge Dublin Ireland J1Ily, T930 IRISH TRAVEL 1!lublin's ~reat ~or5e INTERNATIONAL MILITARY JUMPING. AUGUST 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. ROSPECT f'n° 1he oming The programme for each of the the spectacle of a gathering of Dublin Horse Show which five days is a fnll one, and from the upwards of 2,000 horses, the cream P opens al Ball's Bridge, Dublin, time the how opens at nine o'clock of the Irish Horse-breeding Industry, on Tuesday, 8th of August and in the morning until it closes at is to-day unique. This the Dublin continues up to and including se\'en o'clock in the evening there Horse how provides Saturday, 12th August, are excellent, is a continuous round of intere ting Each morning crowds wander and Show promises to prove as and enjoyable events. through the fine airy stables or brilliant a function as any of its The central figure of the Show is, congregate around the ringsides predecessors. . of course, the horse. Everyone where the horses are being judged loves a good horse, a sight which, or exercised. Fifty-six Classes Eight Countries competing. owing to motor transport, i fast have to come before the Judges Eight countries-Belgium, Eng disappearing from daily life, and during the period of the Show- land, France, Germany, Ireland, tallions, Yearlings, Brood Mares Italy, )Jetherlands, and witzerland and Foal, Made and Unmade -have intimated their intention of Hunters, Cobs, Hacks, Polo Ponies sending forward teams of crack Children's Ponies, and Harnes~ riders and horses to compete in the Horses. Sometimes the Classes International Military Jumping number over ninety strong and the Competitions. Special Military task of adjudication is no easy one. Jumping Competitions are held each In the afternoon steps and day but the piece de resistance is, thoughts turn to the great Jumping of course, the great contest on the Enclosure where, perhaps, the Friday, when teams of three Offirers vi itor gets his or her greatest and three horses representing the thrill. Here are held Civilian and various countrie compete for tIle l\Iilitary Jumping Competitions for most coveted Military Award of valuahle Cups and Prizes; Classes the Show-the Aga Khan Trophy. for harness Horses; and Grand A new Trophy was presented la t Parades of Prize and Commended year by His Highness the Aga Khan Horses in which over three hundred to replace the one won outright by animals take part. the_Irish Team at the 1937 how. [Pl~ase see page 263 259 IRISH TRA VEL juty, f<)JC) I The road to the Reek..... in the early hour5-Si~ • t Murrisk-Stumbling In -40,000 pilgrims climb Mount-The graceful s~ of a soaring cone mar" holiest hill. Croagh Patrlck over Clew Bay, seen from Westport y motor-bike was of ancient Cavan, Dublin or Cork, hurried pilgrims carried rucksacks and it M vintage, but very reliable past into the night with a great was later estimated that more than and far more comfortable glare from the headlights and a 4,000 of these pilgrims had fasted and silent than many of its modem hasty squeak from the horn. from midnight, climbed the 2,5°0 relations. We were chugging along ft. Reek in the early hours of the at a steady pace over the last thirty Westport Awake. morning, and performed all the miles that led to the town of West Arriving in Westport at about approved exercises before settling port: the night was dark without I.30 a.m., I quickly located an down to a well-earned breakfast. being gloomy (it was just past efficient garage where the needs of midnight) but there were no signs my trusty steed were satisfied. The On to Murrisk. of rain, for which blessing I was garage attendant advised me to There is still six miles of road to truly grateful. invest in a pocket torch and though be covered before arriving at Murrisk Above the subdued " chug-chug" a reluctant purchaser I later blessed and the beginning of the pilgrims' of the engine I could hear the rippling him for his winning way and his path that leads to the summit. waters of an invisible brook and the smart sales talk. Patrick must have found it very soft mooing of a sleepless cow. I Westport presented a busy scene. hard to leave his little retreat in wondered if on such a night and to It seems that no one thinks of Aghagower for the remote fastnesses the accompaniment of such homely retiring to bed on the eve of the of the Reek. From the rude hut sounds, St. Patrick set out in the great age-old Pilgrimage, which now in which he lived he could see the year 44I to keep his Lenten vigil takes place annually on the last soaring cone and he must have been on the height above Clew Bay... Sunday of July. Shops and houses fully aware of the terrible hardships were all alight, and families sat in confronting him. He set out in First Signs of the Great Trek. their doorways to watch with sorrow, but in perfect obedience, A modem pilgrim on an iron friendly interest the strange people and arrived at Murrisk on Shrove steed, I was but one of many passing down their streets. Several Tuesday of the year 44I. thousands converging on the town long-distance pilgrimage trains had of Westport to climb the lofty just come in as I passed by the The Ascent. peak, Croagh Patrick. Railway Station. Well-loaded buses It was on the pop of two-thirty Drawing closer to my destination, were appearing from all points of when I arrived at the beginning of I noticed signs of increased activity the compass, and behind all the rush the pilgrims' path. I parked my on all sides. A large motor bns and bustle could be heard a back steed close to the ruins of the old topping a steep incline cast great ground of the sound of heavy boots Abbey of Murrisk, draped it in a beams of light into the sky. Every and the clack-clack of walking sticks rubber sheet as a protection against now and then I passed a gronp of on the pavement. possible rain, and made my way cyclists, a rumbling farm cart or Walking sticks are extensively back to the road with the aid of a well-sprung trap. Impatient used and, as one discovers later, my ninepenny torch light. motorists, driving dust-covered cars they are particularly useful on the Starting the climb right away bearing the number plates of distant return journey. Many of the I soon became conscious of my 260 July, 1939 IR ISH TRAVE J. BY MOTOR~BIKE TO CLIMB CROAGH PATRICK Port S to heavy leather coat. The question By JOHN C. BOYNE n:any prayers while walking several of ~~at t~ wear on this great times around the rough plateau dark PatncIan Pilgrimage is a difficult St. Patrick's Oratory and the Great one, for though the weight of my ove~coat remarkable formation which is the Enclosure. These exercises tool iC:k's was a distressing factor summit of Croagh Patrick. quite a long time to complete amI dunng the course of the climb its the going was very hard. The chill etry warmth proved distinctly ad~an In effect, it is nothing more than air of morning was blowing in from tageous on the exposed summit. a great heap of stones. I doubt if the sea; I was weary, cold and ,·.:i's It was very hard going. After it contains enough vegetation to hungry and my imagination made about an hour I took time off to supply one square meal to a small feeble gestures towards visions of rest on a large jagged rock, and at ferret. The sides are quite steep hot baths and warm drinks. and in order to arrive at the top, once became aware of the great one is forced to make a very Then a great change took place number of Irish pilgrims old and undignified scramble on hands and in the scene below me. The waters young who were doing the climb knees. of Clew Bay were covered with In bare feet. I noticed quite a My first impression on reaching mist like thick white wool. With nrnnber of Americans-a large party the summit was one of shock! the rising sun this mist thinned and had crossed over the Atlantic There must have been close on scattered to reveal a vision of golden specially to do the pilgrimage. The 15,000 people in sight; many were light that scintillated across the scene kept changing as the lights doing the "rounds" and a great heaving waters of the Bay changing flickered from rock to rock. An number were gathered all about the the many small islets into rare old white-haired lady wearing the tiny stone oratory in which Masses gems of great natural beauty. large bla~k shawl of the West, stepped aSIde and dropped a graceful were being celebrated. It was the I watched quietlv, as an old curtsey as two young priests hurried first time that I have ever been on white-haired man fell slowly on his past. A young man directing his top of a high mountain with more k~ee~ and bowe~ his head in prayer, light carefully helped his friend over than a friend for company! hIS fIgure standing out clear against a rock; she smiled her gratitude Once again I looked at my little the beams fro.m the morning Sun. and they passed on ... the old green leaflet. I had two Stations I kept.,:ery still, for I was close to lady with the shawl was once to perform on the summit, in addi- the Spmt of Croagh Patrick and 10 again moving along with great tion to assisting at Mass in the little the fifteen hundred year old tradition speed and confidence. Oratory. Faithful performance of that has made the "Reek" th the Stations required the saying of holiest hill in Ireland. e The first signs of dawn were appearing when I arrived at the (C1'oagh Patrick Sunday, 1939-J1tly 30th). first Station, which consisted of a heap of stones and a rough wo )den cross. Having read carefully the instructions on the little green leaflet (obtained in Westport) I said my seven Paters and Aves and one Creed, while walking around the tation seven times. From Steep Cone to Flat Summit. But there is no rest for the pilgrim; he must move forward and upward with the scrambling groups of people; he must clatter along the rough flint stones and squelch on through the soft boggy ground. By the time I arrived at the Cone the light was fairly good and I was able to get a close-up view of this Croagh Patrlck, fro'" r.oulsburgh. 261 TR IS H TR AVE J. I1tly 1939 THE IRISH THEATRE New Plays and Playwrights The Dublin Gate Longford Productio~s By OUTFRONT HE interesting thing about the Irish Theatre of humourous side of a pilgrimage on which the participants to-day is that Irish dramatists are finding their walk to an Italian shrine. At the same time she pre T material in directions which, until very recently, serves its more serious aspect. Frank 0' onnor, on the were unexplored. Furthermore, there is a distinct other hand, has in The Invil1cibles and Jl,loses' Rock trend towards the universal rather than towards themes dealt with certain periods of Irish political history, the that are peculiarly Irish. Irish drama, in the course former being an impressive character study and the of forty years, has undergone many changes which have latter more or less wholly imaginative, against a back invariably coincided with political, economic and even ground of fact. J. K. Montgqmery has found in County social upheavals. Evolution is still going on in Antrim small-town folk racial traits of a baffling kind Ireland but the process is more gradual. Events no that he presents them humourously in The Heritage, longer take place with dramatic suddenness to spread with which the Abbey Theatre will re-open on July 3· out in sequel and conse The Gate (Dublin). quences that involve the All the foregoing are individual and the nation Abbey productions. The generally. The dramatic Dublin Gate Theatre, qualities of what is now which celebrated its tenth happening in Ireland will anniversary last October, reveal themselves fully has been to a very great only at a later period. extent responsible for the They are practically elud new trend in native drama. ing the playwright of Originally founded in 1928 to-day but they have for the purpose of pre begun to be reflected in senting before Irish the novel in which they audiences work of the can be treated J110re com English, American and prehensively than within Continental theatres which the narrow confines of would otherwise remain the stage. unseen here, the Gate has To-day, native writers also staged many plays by have become interested in Irish writers who, under character and the clashes its influence, set out to of character or the conflict experiment along lines of the new outlook with suggested by the plays of established custom and foreign authors. The result accepted, but not neces The famo1ls A bbey Theatre, Dublin, renowned in d'amatic has on the whole been sarily authentic, theories. circles the world over. exceedingly interesting The reactions of the older and, last season, the Gate generations to recent changes and to modern life Theatre Productions staged Hazel Ellis's Women Without generally are al 0 finding favour "vith Irish playwrights. _Wen in which the author deals with life behind the In all direction , imaginative drama, tinged perhap scenes in a modern boarding-school and incidentally with realism, is gradually replacing the play of stark calls attention to a problem that is universal. Another realities while, occasionallv, new social problems are Irish author, who made his first appearance under the dramatically discussed. . aegis of the Gate, is Denis Johnston who has created a dramatic style of his own for the purpose of satirising The Abbey. the foibles of everyday public and private life. In his As examples of the new Drama, a few re ently pro most recent play, The {;olden Cuckoo, produced at the duced works may be cited. In The Thi1lE!;s That A re Gate by the Longford Productions, 1\[r. Johnston is Caesar's and Shadow and ub lance, Paul Vincent un pairing in his attack on accepted practice which Carroll is frankly critical of piety masquerading as are morally dishonest. The same company staged Lord religion. Cormac O'Daly, in The Silver Jubilee, is Dunsany's The Strange Lover, a fantastically brilliant similarly concerned with another phase of the same atire on the unattainable. theme while Mary Rynne's The Pt'lgrims refle ts the (Please see opposite). 262 July, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL THE IRiSH THEATRE (Continued from page 262) The Gate Theatre's year is now divided into two Don't forget to enter seasons, July to January and January to July. During the first, the theatre is occupied by the Gate Theatre I roductions, presented by Hilton Edwards and Michael FOR THE MacLiammoir, while the second season finds the Longford Productions in residence. This arrangement went into effect in 1936 when the original Gate Theatre company cea ed to sponsor productions and became the holding company of which Lord Longford, Hilton * I. T. A. Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir are directors. Lord Longford's Players. Following their Dublin season, the Gate Theatre Photo Productions go abroad on tour and they have appeared with great success in repertory in Egypt, Malta, Greece, \'ugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and Roumania. When away from Dublin Lord Longford's company tours Ireland Competition and it has also made two visits to London. By special arrangement, his players will, this summer, remain at the Gate until after the Horse Show. Following the production at the Gate of a new play by Austin Clarke 1939 St'ster Eucharia (which will be a world premiere)-the Longford Players will take a holiday on July IS, to re-open on July 31 with a revival of Lady Longford's Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown, a charming comedy of Irish life based on an actual character who flourished in County Meath some fifty years ago. During Horse £50 IN PRIZES Show week another comedy will be presented and, on August 22, Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir will begin their season. Following The Heritage, the Abbey Theatre will • FULL DETAILS ON PAGE 258 make weekly revivals including several old favourites OF THIS ISSUE. and also many of the plays produced for the first time during the season of 1938-1939 which ended late in May. DUBLIN'S GREAT HORSE SHOW-(Continued from page 259)· Ball's Bridge Bargains. wholly to horses. The great feature for many years past and are Each day of the Show in the Exhibition Halls house a fine indus always the subject of admiring portion of the Show premises known trial display; in the Pembroke comment from visitors who as the Bloodstock Paddock, Auction Hall, which has been specially appreciate their pleasing shade on Sales are being conducted. During enlarged this year, the Royal Horti the hot August days with which the five days as many as seven cultural Society of Ireland stages the Horse Show is so often favoured. its Summer Show of Flowers; and hundred yearlings pass through the Cosmopolitan. ale Ring. Even if you have no fine musical programmes are pro intention of buying, an interesting vided by the Army TO. I Band, There is an exciting cosmopolitan hour can be spent in the Sale the Army No. 3 Band, the Dublin flavour about a Dublin Horse Show Paddock, and, who knows, but that :rIetropolitan Garda Ceilidhe Band, crowd. Mingling with pretty frocks you may see a future Grand ational and Miss Fagan's Ladies' Orchestra. and smart riding kits may be seen winner pass unobtrusively through The permanent how Grounds at th~ colourful uniforms of the foreign the Ring to be purchased for a Ball's Bridge afford a magnificent of~l~ers who are. competing in the moderate price, for the roll of setting for this great how. CoYer :\1illtary Jumpmg Competitions. "Ball's Bridge Bargains'~ is long ing fifty acres they provide every Strangt tongues are heard, for and on it may be found such famous comfort for both man and beast and amongst the hundred thousand names as " Shaun Goilin," comprise a miniature township in visitors which the Show annually "Tipperary Tim," and "Golden themselves. A great deal of the attracts many come from the Con l\liller." charm of the Grounds lies in the tinent. and Overseas, sometimes abundance of grass, trees and flowers travellmg thousands of miles in Display of Industries. which are to be found there. The order .to be present at this great The interests and attractions of umbrella-like trees around the three gathermg of horses which to-day is the Show are not, however, confined fine Judging Rings have been a world-famous. 263 IRIsH tRA VEL July, 1939 Telegrams: Dobbyn's, Tipperary. Their Tel. 42 consistently DOBBYN'S HOTEL high standard of TIPPERARY QUALIT~ A.A. R.T.A.C. LT.A. is our protection ·ld" y " Fruitbe lied uuder the name t is absolutely Anything ~UPtaudard of Qualitytth~ yourself when Fully Licensed adhere~ t~ a That is why you pro Fruitfield Jams, Y depen~ab ('y·s insist on gecttlu: Fruits, etC., etc. you wa Table JelUes, an ed Famity and Commercial FRUITFIELD PRODUCTS INCHICORE. DUBLlN. 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OolI, ~'i TEN MINUTES TO THE JUNGLE-Continued from page 255. (harlie and to admire the expert informed guide and the big cats It's Worth a Whole Day. manner in which he disposed of became creatures with individual It'~ an amazing place is this his wife when she tried to collect passions and odd little human Dublm Zoo. There is much to be tasty tit-bits from amused visitors. characteristics. seen, and yet it is so hard to turn 1-fy scheduled tour of the Gardens away from that which interests you became seriously disorganised. AoHe is a beautiful Is-year old at the mnment. I was forced to lioness with 26 cubs to her credit move quickly in orcT.er to cover the considered to be a very good record. remaining few hundred exhibits. Man Eaters and a Man Hater. She has a son called Danno; he There is "Dingiri Amma," one of It had just passed three o'clock received his name from an arranged. the l~rgest elephants in captivity, when I arrived at the famous Lion bout of all-in wrestling which he and. hIS two companions, " Chanchal House and I entered the well-lighted had with the famous Dan O'Mahony Peary" and" Saraswathi." Large huilding to a great crunching of (before a battery of cameras) on Pythons rub their scaly length bones and a tearing of raw flesh. his last visit to Ireland. Lioness against the thick glass fronts of Zuleika is a hands0me looking beast their specially heated comparlments. This Lion House has been well and she is als0 the Zoo's prize Big black bears slump into dark written-up because of its unique man hater. An out-and-out pools in search of "meaty" bits reputation as a lion stud. Tt individualist, she considers all lions and great Eagle Owls stare at the certainly is an amazing fact that as low fellows, unworthy to enter passing throng-and ponder on the Dublin-bred lions should be exported the cage of a very fine lady. There strange creatures that wander into not only to Engl~nd and the must be something about the Irish their Zoo. Continent, but even to far-away a tmosphere that is agreeable to You will enjoy it very much Africa! wild jungle beasts; by normal but be sure to allow plenty of time reckoning, a beautiful leopard named for your visit to Dublin's Zoological On previous visits to this big Kit should have died about fourteen Gardens. Charlie the Chimp. may house with the rather pungent years ago, but she decided otherwi e, be demonstrating a new type of odour, the lions appeared to me and on my present visit T saw head-lock on the sporting Susy and as-well, just so many lions. ow her getting on the outside of a he will be very "fed-up" if you I was under the care of a well- large piece of cow. walk away in the middle of hi act. ABBOTSFORD HOTEL, NOW ON SALE 72 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN Centrally situated, convenient to all plRCcR oC lntere_t. Good catering. Bedrooms, large, bright and aIr)', with hot and cold running watl'r In cach bedroom. MOUNTAINEERING IN IRELAND BED AND BREAKFAST. 6/- .. FULL WEEKLY TARIFF, 63/- By Resident Proprietress. Garage. C. W. WALL With an Introduction by Dr. R. LLOYD PRAEGER AVELLE'S Private Hotel Press Comments CLIFDEN .. CONNEMARA· " This fine little shillin{; book, from which THE HOTEL THAT OFFERS MODERN COMFORTS AT MODERATE I gave Ireland the new title of Isle of 1,000 Peaks CHARGE. NEWLY BUILT AND UP-Ta-DATE. NEW LUXURY BEDS THROUGHOUT. HOT AND COLD WATER ALL ROOMS. is Geography from a new angle, and history, too. RESTAURAN'I' ATTACHED GARAGE FREE An exceedingly fascinating little book." Picture Post Card Views of Connemara can be obtainrd on the Premises. [Cl Roddy th" Royer " in " The Irish Press "] BELFAST " 1/ is a plea lire /0 commend this admirable, WAVERLEY EL practical handbook." [Lynn Doyle] ALBERT SQ. (opp. a Rouse) Bed and Breakfast 7{-. H. & C. "Every mountain district in Ireland has in Bedrooms. Rxcellen~q>ok ing and service. Take Tram to received notice in this practical and beautifully Albert Clock. Phone 22427 1·11ustraled treatise on how to cale the grand arching domes of Ireland." RAILWAY HOTEL, KILLORGLIN. [" unday Ind pendent "] The Railway Hotel, Killorglin, County Kerry was omitted, through an oversight, from the list of LT.A. Price 1/· Post Free I /2 Hotels published in the Ring of Kerry Folder. Full particulars of facilities and rates of charge will be found From all Booksellers, or direct from in the LT.A. Directory while the hotel is also inclun,ed IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION in the lists appearing in the Kerry Guide and Kerry / O·CONNELL STREET- KiJIarney FOlder and in Irish Travel. DUBLIN IRISH TRAVEL July, 1939 FOREIGN TRAVEL and FOREIGN EXCHANGE THlD NA1'IONAL BANK is in an exclusive pOfdtion to facil1"tate travellers. it has an 'unrivalled organisation for the transaction of forcign bw·dlles~ and the proc1£1'c ment of f~tnd.~ without the lea.~t dijJi.culty and at the most favourable ?'ates in any City of the W m'ld. T hrou!Jh01lt its network of Branches, which is the largest in Ireland, Tra1'ell~rs' ChequN~, Dollar Rills, etc., can be exchanged on the most favourable terms, and '1,'isitors to Ireland will be gladly accorded every possible facility dU?'ing thcir stay in the Cl/1tnlr,!/, THE NATIONAL BANK LIMITED ESl'ABLISHED 1835 DUBLIN: 34 & 35 College Green LONDON: 13-17 Old Broad Street, I.C.2 246 Offices throughout Ireland and 26 Omces in London and Great Britain generally. Agents and Correspondents throughout the World, I~- Why be behind the Times? Pleasant HAVE YOUR HOTEL OR RESTAURANT BROUGHT A UP-TO-DATE BY INSTALLING ~. ~ -l~ ~ Pause Lunches that are delicious.. ·C d·· . 'v0~ ~v teas that offer something really I AIr on Ibonlng V tempting ... foods of a quality that OR MODERN ~., ~ equals the best on the tourist routes ~ of the World. There are dainty Central o''! Q dishes for every taste, freshly pre ~?tV •••• pared hy experts in the art of cooking. Heating Tastefully served amid tasteful ~ ~" ~ surroundings, a Monument al will be one of your pleas ntest emories ~ ....~ .....V" spec!'nialists I Consult- ~' v of Dublin. ~ r, ). HEATING ~ $~ ..'? VENTILATING () '!-.QJ~ $' AIR CONDITIONING MONUM .~ hY ocJ"V DOMESTIC HOT WATER 55 Upr. O'Connell St. ~,:f'a ~ DUST & FUME REMOVAL CAFES and 39 Grafton St. ~ Drying Rooms & Refrigeration Under same management as the twenty-three Phone: DUBLIN 76515'6 MONUMENT CREAMERIES-Dublin's quality shops for Butter, Eggs, Cream, Honey, Cheese, Cakes, etc. 266 ]1tly, 1939 IRTSH TRAVEL AT CARNA. IN CONNEMARA RADIO EIREANN July Programmes:: A Successor to Question Time? :: Some Special Features Carna, Connemara will feature on 15th in the series of Talks in Irish on holiday resorts-" SAolne COlS fAlnnse" HE programmes for the present month are Wa hington feature is being given on 4th. A still more interesting and varied, but there is no outstanding elaborate programme i being radiated on I.+th to T erial feature to attract one's attention. "Question celebrate the French " ational Day. " The Twalfth " Time" i being given a re t, and no adequate substitute i being appropriately (if omewhat unorthodoxly) has been found. There is no doubt that the absence of celebrated with traditional lster ong and a production any outstanding feature tends t6 make programmes of Gerald 1'lacNamara's comedy, "Thompson in Tir generally less attractive. Most of us like to have some na-nOg." On 26th, there will be a special programme thing to look forward to on aturday or Sunday night. to celebrate the eighty-third birthday of George Bernard But it is by no means easy to think up features which Shaw. will hold the fickle interest of listeners O\'er an extended period. Talks and Variety. The Julv programmes include an interesting series In addition to the series on Irish resorts, a number of talks' in "Irish, under the title" Saoire Cois Fairrge." of attractive talks are featured. Readings by Maud Various Irish seaside resorts will be dealt with in this Gonne from her Autobiography will be given on 2nd, feature which will be given on 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. The idea of educating listeners into an appreciation of 9th, 16th and 23rd. A series on "The Magic of Place Ireland's holiday attractions i mo t laudable, and a • ames" will be given on loth, 17th, 22nd and 24th. similar series might well be undertaken in English. The Esperanto Talks on various features of Irish life will be continued on 2nd and 18th. Music. Lover of "variety" are adequately catered for' 'Tousde~ A notable feature in this month's programmes is the some attractive items to note are :-Val attention being given to Irish Mu ic. Recital. of. native (6th); Thunder Brothers with Albert Healy (7th). music will be given on 4th, 5th and 20th, whIle le s Barry Brothers (8th); "A Little Variety" (9th); ambitious programmes of Folk 1Iusic are being broad " At the Tune Inn" (18th);" nything May Happen" ca t on variou dates throughout the month. (21St), and "Town Hall To-night" (28th). Other musical items to note are: Radio Orchestra with Adolph Gebler (Clarinet) and Tom Br~wne (Flute) Etcetera. on 6th; Radio Concert (loth); aturday ~lght Concert There are singularly fe \ utside hroadcasts, the most (22nd); and Radio Octet, with l\Iichael O'Higgins notable being a relay of tile cermonies commemorating (baritone) and Hilda Duffy (mezzo) a soloists (27th). the Jubilee of the Total Abstinence Society at Tuam. There will be High 11ass and a sermon by Most Rev. Special Features. Dr. Dignan. Kilkenny will be on the air as the second A number of interesting commem ralive fealures in" Our Towns Talking" on July 19th. A relay of the are included in the July programm s. A George Lein ter Trophy Car Race will be given on the 8th. 267 - IRISH TRA VEL July, 1939 FIRST for I LARGE R{)IO~Ig for BANQUETS, COMFORT KILLARY BAY DINNERS, MEETINGS, CUISINE and CONNEMARA I Etc. I:===0::::::: SERVICE JURY'S HOTEL & Leenane Hotel RESTAURANT g~~~?E DUBLIN. I.T.A. A.A. R.I.A.C. American Bar and Oyster Saloon in Base en] The Hotel overlooks KiIlary Bay Grill Room in Basement. and is in the centre of the finest I Restaurant, Ground Floor X Connemara Scenery. Garages. Tea Lounge, Ground Floor Coffee Room, First Floor Motors for Hire. Excellent Banqueting Room, First Floor Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing I on the Kylemore Castle Waters A la carte and Table d 'Hote Meals (rights on three lakes, the Afternoon Teas a Speciality Dawros River and famous Rock RESTAURANT OPEN ON SUNDAYS. Pool; also on Loughs Fee, Muck HOT A1m COLD WATER and Culfln River). and TELEPHONE IN BEDROOMS I IN CAFE: FREE BROWN TROUT FISHING. GOOD CENTRE Lift to all Floors Fresh FOR MAYFLY ON LOUGHS CORRIB AND MASK. Hairdressing Saloon Sandwiches, PIKE FISHING. SEA FISHING. Telegrams: ".TURY'S, DUBLIN." Morning Telephone: Nos. 22241-44. Coffee, Snacks, Ices. rotegrams : Phono: For Tariffs apply Manager. McKEOWN, LEENANE LEENANtr t. DUN LAOGHAIRE DUBLIN (Kingstown), Co. Dublin The Ross's Hotel Ltd. Gresham F AOING PIER AND HARBOU . ROOMS WITH H. and C. WATER, GAS OR ELECTRIC FIRES AND BE mE LIGHTS. PRIVATE BATHROOM SU trES. ELECfRIC LIFT. I' CUISINE EXCELLE T ntral FULLY LICENSED Heating. COURTEOUS SERVICE Telephone and GARAGE MODERATE RATES Hot and Cold BOATING BATHING TENNIS Running GOLF MOTORING Water in every Bedroom. Under personal supervision of Restaurant, Grill Room and MRS. COLDWELL, Tea Lounge. Managing Director. EstiJli7hcd IRELAN D'SEntir1b:;built A.A. AND R.I.A.C. APPOINTMENTS. NEWEST AND MOST MODERN HOTEL •. The Hntel to which "tsitors always return." MODERATE CHARGES. TELEPHONE: 195 AND 196. re1epbone: Telegr&m8 : TBLEGRoUlS: .. ROSSOTEL, DUN LAOtlHAlRE." Ol1l>lln 71371 (6 linea) GresbMD. Dublin 268 July, J939 IRiSH TNA V EL Ross's Ro tel, Dun Laoghaire' Leenane Hotel, Connemara ------..------j Jury's Hotel, Dublin t Bell All' Hote,I Ashtord CUll Castle Hotel, Dalkey Lounge. Grand Hotel, Sligo . . ...---.~-.-.---~----~...... I Portmarnock Hotel Bush Hotel, Carrlck-on-Shannon Grand Hotel, Greystones Royal Hotel, G1endalough Great N 1 . t Great N.01 orthern Ra'] way H I thernGreenoreRailway Hotel, Holel Carlisle, Dunlaoghaire•, Bundoran 0 e, Cruise's Ho tel, L'lmerick .... IRISH TRAVEL July, 1939 COSH (QUEENSTOWN) SPEED THE SPACE COMMODORE SERVICE- These are of vital importance in the hotel kitchen. Electric kitchen HOTEL equipment is specially designed to ensure maximum speed consistent Make the COMMODORE IIOTEL, with first-cla s cookery-to give COBH, your Headquarters for maximum workmg space consist charming County Cork. ent \vith convenient planning-to facilitate a high standard of service consistent with general kitchen economy--and to provide the flexibility so essential to meet the demands of an efficient hotel This Firs[- Class Modern kitchen. Hotel open Our experts have a wide experielle(;\ on Ist of hotel and rC'staurant inRtallations. They w;ll be happ.v to give advice I939· and assi tance free of charge or obligation. WRITE OR A.SK FOR OUR BOOKLE'l' 'ELECTRICITY FOR THE MODERN HOTEL' * PERFECT COOKING * FULLY LICENSED * PRIVATE SUITES * PRIVATE BATHROOMS ELECTRICITY Sheltered Position. Faces the magnificent SUPPLY BOARD view of Cork llarbour. Commodious Gm·age. CONSU M ERS DEPT. 37 MERRION SQ., DUBLIN P6~~~r '.Photic: UOBll 153. 27° July, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL A DIRECTORY OF IRISH HOTELS Abbrevialion.~: B--numiJer of bedrooms. Fr.-From. OTE.-In practically all cases the prices quoted in this list are either" all the year round" or " season" rates. In many cases Hotels here included quote "off seMon" charges lower than those published-tor example, Hotels in Seaside Resorts. ABBEYFEALE (Limerick). BALLlNAMORE (Leitrim). SYDENHA)I (Pulland Road); B. 10; Day 10/- ; I, LEEN'S, Main St.; B. 12; Day 10/-; Wcck 70/-. RAILWAY; B. 11; Day 10/-; Week fiO/-. Week 63/-. BALLINASLOE (Galway). VERONA Phr.tello Terrace): Week 45/- to 63/-. ABBEYLEIX (Laolghls). WAVE CRES f HOUSE (Dockery's); B. 8; DE VESCI ARMS; B. 10; Day 12/6; Week 80/-. HA YDEN'S; B. 30; Day 1216; Week 70/-. O'CARROLL'~; B. 16; Day 10/6 to 12/-. Day 10/-; Week 60/-. ACHILL ISLAND (Co. Mayo). BALLlNEEN (Cork). WAVE CREST HOTEL (Graham's); B. 8; Day ACHILL HEAD, Keel; B. 22; Day 1 t/ft; Week HURLEY'S; B. 12; Day 10!-; Week 60/·. 10/-; Week 63/-. fifi!- to 6fi/-. WHYDAH plrs. MeTighe); B. 10; Week 45/-. AMETHYST, Keel; B. 28; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. BALLINROBE (Mayo). BRITTAS BAY (WIcklow). BURKE'S (Private), Dugort; B. 5; Day 10/-; RAILWAY; B. 20; Day 12/-; Week 63/-. ROCKFlELD; B. 16; Day 12/6; Week 81/-. Week 50/-. BALLlNKELLlGS (Kerry). BUNBEG (Donegal). CLEW BAY HOUSE, Dooagh; B. 10; Day 9/-; SIGERSON ARMS; B. 8; Day 9/-; Week 55/-. BRESl.IN'S; B. 16; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. Week 50/-. BALLYBUNION (Kerry). FRIEL'S (Seaview), Private; B. 12; Day 8/-; GRAY'S, Dugort; B. 8; Day 10/-; Week 60/·. CASTLE; B. 46; Day 19/6; Week 105/-. Week 50/-. McDOWELL'S, Dugort; B. 14; Day 12/6; Week CENTRAL; B. 29; Day 1.4/6; Week 90,1-. BUNCRANA (Donegal). f1~/. to 70/-. SAVOY; B. 11 ; Day 7!- to 8/6; Week 45/- to 63/-. BAY VIEW; B. 18; Day 15/-; Week 63/-. ~IQllNTAIN VIEW, Dugort; B. 11; Day 10/6; STRAND; B. 22; Day 11/-; Week 74/-. LAKE OF SHADOWS; B. 16; Day 10/-; Week Week 55/- to 60/·. WEST END; B. 26; Day 10/- to 12/-; Week 63/-. STRAND, Dugort; B. 16; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. 70/- to 75/-. LOUGH SWILLY; B. 40; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. PATIEN'S (Private), Keem; R. 5; Day 0/-; BALLYBOFEY (Donegal). BUNDORAN (Donegal). Week fiO/-. MA GEE'S ; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week fr. 42/-. ATLANTIC; B. 21; Day 1~/-; Week fr. 73/6. RICHVIEW, Keel; B. 7; Day 0/- 10 10/-; Week BALLYCOTTON (Cork). A)lERICAN; B. 15; Day 6/- to 8/-; Week 42: 50/- to 5fi/·. BA Y\'IEW; B. 45; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. to 40/-. ADARE (Limerick). CONGRESS (Private); B. 10; Uay 10/-; Week CENTRAL; B. 32; Day 17/-; Week fr. 94/6. DUNRAVEN AR~IS; B. 40; Day 23/6; Week 55/- to 63/-. CONWAY'S (Privale); B. l2; Day U/- to 12/-; 136/6. FAWCETI'S; B. 42; Da}' 14;6; Week 4/-. Week 70/- to 77/-. AHERLOW (Tipperary). GREAT NORTHERN; B. 76; Week fr. 147/-. GLEN OF AHERLOW; B. H; Day 10/-; Week BALLYFERRITER (Kerry). HA~IILTO ; B. 40; Week fr. 105/-. 60/-. GRANVILLE'S; 13. 19; Day /6 to 10/6. nIPERIAL; B. 20; Day 10; Week 63/-. RIVERSDALE HOUSE; B. 13; Day 10/- to BALLYGAR (Galway). )IARATHON; B. 17; Day 12/-; Week 77/-. 12/-; Week 55/- 10 63/-. WALLS; 13. 12; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. MRS. E. DALY (Private), Tourist House; B. 10; ANASCAUL (KerrYI. BALLYHEIGUE (Kerry). Week 50/- to 63/-. O'DONNELL'S; B. 6; Day 8/-; Week 45/-. LAKEVIEW ; Day 8/-; Week 50/-. )IRS. KENNEDY (Private), 1 Bay View Tee. ARAN ISLANDS (Galway). BALLYLICKEY (Cork). B. 14; Day 10/6; Week 50/- to 70/-. GANLEY'S (Kilronan); B. 15; Day fr. 10/-; Week OUVANE; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 55/- to 60/-. O'GORIt..t,.N'S B. 25, nay I ~:I; WC',k 70/ fr. 6~/- PALACE; B. 30; Day 13/6; Week 73/6 to 84/-. BALLYLlFFUI (Donegal). SHENE HOUSE; B. 17; Day 13/-; Week 84/-. BAY VIEW (Kilronan); B. 6; Day 6/6; Wcek THE BALLYLIFFIN; B. 20; Day 10/-; Week 42/- to 45/-. CAHmCIVEEN IKeny). ST. KEVI 'S (Kilronan); B. 12; Day 7/-; Week 50/- to 60/-. HARP; B. 26; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. 42'-. BALLYNACALLY (Clare). O'CONNELL'S RAILWAY; B. 19; Day 12/-; ARDARA (Donegal). PARADISE VIEW; B. 4; Day 8/6; Week 45/-. Week 70/-. ESBITT ARMS; B. 20; Day 16/-; Week 84/ 8ALLYSHANNON (Donegal). VILLA NOVA; B. ~; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. ,I' to 105/-. ROYAI., Main SI.; B. 14; Day 11/6; Week 70/-' CARAGH LAKE (Kerry). WOODHILL; B. 8; Day 10/- to 11/-; Week BALLYSODARE (Sligo). SOUTHERN B. 33; Day 13/· to IS/ ; Week 63.f' to 73/6. SWISS; B.12; Day 8/6 to lO/6; Week 40/- to 75/-. 75/- to 100/-. BALLYVAUGHAN (Clare). CARLOW (Carlow). A'}flopU'~?~~)' B. 10; Day 12/3; Week 70/·. BRAY'S (Private); B. 4; Day 8/6; Week 50/-. ROYAI., Dublin Street; B. 40; Day 15/6' Week RllXTON ARMS; B. 10; Day 12/-; Week 6~/-. BALTIMORE (Cork). 94/6. ' "RDMORE (Waterlord). CASTLE HOUSE; B. 6; Day 8/- to 0/-; Week CARNA (Galway). CLIFF HOUSE; B. 24; Dav 13/6; Week 84/-. 50/- to 60/-. MONGAN'S, B.~;;; Day 1S/-; Week 98/- to 1191 KNOCKBOY HOUSE (Mrs. Betts); B. 6; July MELROSE; B. 14; Day fr: 13/6; Week 84:-. BANAGHER (Olraly). ARKLOW (Wicklow). SHANNON; B. 11; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. Sept., Day 15/-; Week 84/-. Otber Months BRIDGE; B. i\; Day 8/-; Week fr. 42/-. Day 12/-; Week 70/-. ' BONNE BOUCHE ; B.7; Day 7;6; Week fr. 42/-. BANTRY (Cork). CARNDONAGH (Donegal). HOYNES; B. 15; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. VICI 27 1 IRISH TRA VEL July, 1939 Hotel Carlisle CRUISE'S DUNLAOGHAIRE ROYAL HOTEL KINGSTOWN CO. DUBLIN 'PRONE DUN LAOGRA-IRE, 110. LIMERICK R.I.A.C., A.A. AND I.T.A. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. Wires: Phone: * "CRUISE'S, LIMERICK" 221 and 397. Limerick's oldest and most comfortable Hotel. H. and C. in all Bedrooms. Several Private Bathroom Suites. Bed side Lights. Central Heating. / FINEST POSITION FACING PIER AND HARBOUR. Renowned for its Excellent and L beral * CUisine. Renovated throughout. Hot and cold running w,ter in all bedrooms. Up-to-date beds and side light,. Ideal for a resUuI holida}. Own Farm I PrfK1u~. Receptions, G3.I'deo and Dinner P3rtteS catered for. Officially appointed by A.A., 11'.1 .A.e., I.T.A. MODERATE INCLUSIVE TARIFF ON APPLICATION. 11 \40-~~_"'" GREYSTONES ~ GLENDALOUGH , CO. WICKLOW CO. WICKLOW ~ . g ROYAL HOTEL ~ A Model Hotel in the midst of GRAND HOTEL ~< the Wicklow Mountains close to Seven Churche3 and St. Kevin's Bed ~ BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED ~~: ~ ON THE SEA FRO T ~~ ~ Hot and Cold Water in each Bedroom. ~~ ,~ ~ Private Suites. Tennis, Golf. "~ ,~ A.A. and R.I.A.C. LOCK-UP GARAGES. ,~ ~; MOTOR FOR HIRE ~~ ·4.....~'>~~~'>~~~~~~~~~ .....";.~'..";.~'>'" .....'"..'-' 27 2 July, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL OUFD2N (Galway), nUSWELVS, MoleslVorth SI.; B. 30; Day 12/-; ARNOLD'S GUEST HOUSE; B. 19; Day 13/6 ARDBEAR; B. 12; Day 11/-; Week 70/-. Week 73/6. to 15/-; Week 63/- to fl4/-. CENTRAL; 13. 10; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. CALEDONIAN, 5th. Genrs-e's St.; B. 19; Day .. ~IUSKOI{A "; B. 7; Day JO/-; Week 63/-. IVY (Private); B. 10: nay 12/-' Week 10/-. 12/6; Week 84/-. HANDON; B. 27; Day 10/- to J5/-' Week JOYCE'S (late Lyden's); B. 11; Day 10/6; CA RLTON, Tlarcourt St.; B. 14; Day 10/-; Week fr. 63/-. ' Week 631-. 60/-. DUNGARYAN (Waterford). L~r.LLE·'S, Main St.; 10; Day 10!-; Week CgN'TRAL. Exchequer SI.; B. 105; Day fr. 15/- ; DEVONSHIRE ARMS: B. 17', Day 19/-. Week B. Week fr. 95/-. 60/-. -, ~AILWAY; B.30; Day ft. 15/·; Week fr. 84/ CLERKIN'S, Eccles St.; B. 18; Day 10/6; LAWLOR'S; B. 15; Day 12/-; Week SOlo. "OCK GLEN; B. 12; Day 15/-; Week 94/6 Week 70/-. DUNGLOE (Donegal). COUNTY, Harcourt SI.; B. 31; Day 1~/6; CAMPBEL~'S; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 70/-. CLOGHANE (Kerry), Week 14/-. SWEENEY 5; B. 17; Day JO/-; Week M/-. O'CONNOR'S; B. 6' Day 10/-; Week 60/-. DELAHUNTY'S, 26 Northbrook RoaeT; B. 6' DUNKINEELY (Donegal), OLONAKILTY (Cotk), Day 8{6 to 10/-; Week fr. 42/-. HILL'S; B. 10; Day 12/6; Week il41-. O'DONOVAN'S; B. 12; Day fr. 12/6; Week DOLPH N, Essex SI.; B. 20; Day 18/0. DUN LAOGHAIRE (Dublin). fr. 70/', DOLLYMOUNT; B. 7; Day 12/6. AL!>XANDRA, Gresham Tce.; B. 16;' Day INCHIDONEY; Il. 31; nay 21/-; Week 10r,/-. DROMlD (21 N.C. Rd.); B. 9.; Day 9/-; Week 12/6; Week 63/-. . THE RETREAT j B. 4; Day 9/-; Week SO/ ft. 50/-. ARDEEN; B. 21; Day fr. 12/6; Week fr. 84/-. to 63/-. EASTWOOD, Lr. Leeson SI.; B. 22; Day 7!6 AVENUE; B. 30; Day 15/-: Week fr. 7316. CLONEA (Waterlord), to 10/6; Week 42j- to 63/-. BELLEVlEW; B. 20; Day 15/-; Week' 84/- OCEA VIEW; B. 12; Day 12/6; Week 70/" EOEN VALE, Hartourt SI.; B. 11; Day 10/6; to 120/-. Week 63/-. CARUSLE; B. 21; Day fr. 15/-; Week 84/- to CLON£E (Kerry), 1~/-; 110/-. LAKE; B. JO: Day 9/-; Week 50/-. EGAN'S, Parnell Square; B. Day 10/0; Week 63/-. CARRIG MUlRE; B. 9; Day fr. 10/-; Week CLONES (Monaghan). ELUO IT, Harcourt SI.; B. 12; Da)' 10/-; fr. 63/-. CREIGHTON; B. 18; Day 13/-; Week 72/-. Week 70/-. MTNERVA, Gresham Tce.; B. 11; Day 12/6; FOUR COUR1'S, Inns Quay; B. 100; Day 15/- ; Week 70/-. CLONEVAN (Wexford). PIER; B. 25; Day 12/6; Week 63/-. CAHoRE HOUSE; B. 9; Day 11/6 to I~:-; Week 84/-. GALWAY AR~rS, Parnell Square; B. 12; Day ROSS'S; B. 60; Day fr. 17/6; Week fr. 105/ Week fr. 63/-. REALT-NA-MARA, 10 Windsor Tee.; B. 8; CLONMANY (Donegal). 7/6; Week 49/-. GRESHA~f, O'Co'1I1ell St.; B. 120; Day fr. 2216; Day fr. 10/-; Week 63/- to 70/-. IN:-.ITSHOWEN; B. 8; Week 50/- to 60/-. ROYAL MARINE; B. SO; Day fr. 18/6; Week Week 147/-. CLONMEL (Tipperary). 126/-. HEARN'S; B. 33; Day 14/·; Week 84/-. GROSVENOR, Westland Row; B. 21; Day 15/- ; ST. ALBAN'S, Sandycove Promenade; B. 11; ORMONDE; B. 39; Day 15/-; Week 100/-. Week 84/-. Oay fr. 10/6; Week fr. 63/-. HOGAN'S, 45 Harrington St.; Da)' 8/6; Week 42/-. SOUTHERN; B. 9; Day 10/- ; Week 63! COBH (Cork). IVANHOE, Harcourt St.; B. 46; Day 14/6. WAVE CREST; B. 17; Day 12/-; Week 73/6 COMMODORE; B. 52; Week 147/-. Week 84/-. EUROPEAN; B. 12; Day 12/6; Week 84/-. to 84/-. JURY'S, College Green; B. 100; Day 20/-; DUNLEWY (Donegal). IMPERIAL; B. 23; Day 15/6; Week 84/-. Week 112/-. WESTBOURNE: B. 20; Day 12/6; Week 84/-. DU LEWY; B. 12; Week 50/- to 60/-. LENEHAN, Harcourt SI.; B. 25; Day 10!1I; McCLAFFERTYS; B. 10; Day 8/-; Week 45/ COOTEHILL (Cavan). Week 70/-. COURT VIEW; B. 25; Day 12/6; Week 60/-_ MAcDERMOIT, Harcourt SI.; B. 25; Day 12/ to 50/-. CORK CITY. to 13/6; Week 70/- to 84/-. DUNMANWAY (Cork), CENTRAL, Princes St.; B. 9; Day 1O!-; Week 63/ MART", 20 Lr. Fitzwilliam SI.; B. 16; Day 12/-; RAILWAY; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. DESMOND, Pembroke St.; B. 20; Day 12/6. Week 63/-. DUNMORE EAST (Waterford). MEATH, Parnell Square; B. 20; Day 7/6. STRAND; B. 16; Day 8/-; Week 50/-. HOSKING'S, Princes St.; B. 15; Day 9/-; Week EASKEY (See Roslea). 56/·. MOIRA, Trinity SI.; B. 20; Day 11/6; Week 72;6. IMPERLU, Pembroke St.; B. 68; per Day 21/- ; MORAN'S, Talbot St.; B. 60; Day 14/-; Week ELPHIN (Roscommon). Week 147/-. 84/- THE GOLDSMITH ARMS; B. 12; Day 12/6; KINCORA, Cook St. ; B. 24 ; Bed and Breakfast 6/6. NOONAN'S, Ormmld Quay; B. 30; Day 8/-; Week 74/- to 84/-. METROPOLE, MacCurtain St.; B. 100; Day Week 50/-. ENNIS (Clare). 17/-; Week 105/-. NORTH STAR, Amicins St.; B. 50; Day 12/6; CARMODY'S, Abbey SI.; B. 25; Day fr. 11/6; MUNSTER Coburg St.; B. 34; Day 13/-. Week 84/-. Week 70/- to 84/-. TURNER'S, Oliver Plunket St.; B. 12; Day 10/· ; ORAN, 42 Lr. Baggot St.; B. 10; Day 10/6; OLD GROUND; B. 30; Day 16/-; Week 84/-. Week 63/-. Week fr. 62/6. QUEEN'S, Abbey St.; B. 36; D,y 15/-; Week VICTORIA, Patrick St.; B. 80; Day 20/-; Week 'ORMOND, Ormond Quay; B. 100; Day 17/,; fr. 84/-. 120/-. Week 105!-. ENNISCORTHY (Wexford). WINDSOR, MacCurtain St.; B. 30; Day 13/-; O'BRlEN'S, Paroell St.; B. 20; D~y 8/-; Week RAILWAY; B. 20; Day 12/-; Week 84/-. Week 84/-. 50/-. ENNISCRONE (Silgo). WRENN'S; B. 24; Day 10/6; Week 60/-. PARKSrDE, N.C.R., Phoenix Park; B. 20; SCURMORE; B. 30; Day 12/6 to 18/-; Week COROFllf (Ciare). Day fr. 10:6; Week fr. 63/-. 84/- to 126/-. T. G. STUDDERT, Clifden House; B. 8; Day PELLETTER, Harcourt St.; B. 24; Day 13/-; ENNISKERRY (Wicklow). fr. 10/6; Week 73/6. Week 73/6. COOKSTOWN (Private); B. 9; Day 9/- to 10/6; MRS. G. E. STUDDERT, Cragmoher; B. 8; Day PHOENrX Park, Parkgate SI.; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. 12/-; Week 6S/- to 73/6. Week 63/-. POWERSCOURT ARMS; B. 12; Day 10/6; POWER'S, Kildare St.; B. 26; Day 12/-; Week COURTMACSHERRY (Cork). Week 63/-. ESPL.'\NADE; B. 20; Day fr. 10/6 ; Week fr. 63;-. 73/6. SUMMERHILL; B. 13; Week 50/-. REGE 1', D'Olier SI.; B. 26; Week 70/-. ENNISTYMON. COURTOWN HARBOUR (Wexford). KOYAL HIBERNIAN, Dawson St.; B. 130; THE FALLS; B. 20; Day fr. 18/6; Week 115/6 BAYVIEW ; B. 11; Day 7/6 to 10/-; Week Day fr. 22/6; Week 126/-. to 157/6. ROSS'S, Parkgate St.; B. 34; Day 12/6; Week 45/- to 60/-. FERMOY (Cork) • CROSSHAYEN (Cork). •0/-. GRAND; B. 20; Day 15/-; Week 84/- to 105/-. CHURCH BAY; B. 10; .Day 8/-; Week 50/-_ ROYAL EXCHANGE, Parliament SI.; Day 14/6; ROYAL; B. 25; Day fr, 12/6; Week fr. 70/-. CROSSHAVEN; B. 25; Day 16/6; Week 84/-. Week 94/6. FlNEA (Westmeath). FOUNTAINSTOWN; B. 10; Day 12/-; Week RUSSELL (St. Stephen's Coreen); B. 40; Day LAKE VIEW; B. 8; Day 10/-. 84/-. 16/-; Week 84/-. ST. ANDREW'S (Exchequer St.); B. 50; Week FOYNES, CROSSMOLlNA (Mayo). ARDANOIR; B. 4; Day 12/- to 15/-; Week ANGLERS' NEST (Private); B. 8; Day 10/-; 73/6. 63/- to 84/-. Week 63/- to 70/-. ST. GEORGE, Parnell Square; B. 22; Day 11; Week 63/-. CREEVEEN; B. 6; Week 35!- to 40/-. CURRACLOE (Wexford). SHELBOURNE, St. Stepben's Green; B. 152; COOLGREANY; B. 6; Day 9/6 to 10/6; Week BENTLEY; B. 10; Day 7/-; Week 40/-. Day 22/6 to 24/-; Week 136/6 to 168/-. 50/- to 63/-. STRAND; B. 22; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. STANDARD, Harcourt SI.; B. 67; Day fr. 16/6 ; WOODVIEW; B. 8; Day 6/-; Week 35/-. DALKEY (Dublin). Week 94/6. GALBALLY (Limerick). CLIFF CASTLE; B. 30; Day 18/-; Week fr. 94/6. SWISS HOTEL; Bed and Breakfast 6/6 to 8/6; GALTEE; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 55/- to 63/-. DIKGLE (Kerry). Day 12/6. GALWAY (Galway). BENNER'S; B. 21; Day fr. 14/6; Week 84/-. VERNON HOTEL, Clontarf; B. 12; Day 10/-; AMERICAN, Eyre Square; B. 10; Day 10;-' DONEGAL (Donegal). Week 60/-. Week 63/- to 70/-. ' IMPERIAL; B. 12; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. VAUGHAN'S, 29 Parnell Square; B. ~7; Day ATLANTA; B. 18; Day 8/-; Week 45/-. DOWNlNGS (DonepJ). fr. t2/6; Week 84/-. BAILEY'S, Eyre Square; B. 35/-; Day fr. 13/-; BEACH; B. 16; Day 1:!./-; Week 63/-. WESTBROOK, Parnell Square; B. 17; Bed and Week fr. 84/-. Breakfast 716. E~DA, Dommick St.; B. 16; Day 13/-; Week DROGHEDA (Louth). WESTER (:'1. Frederick St.); B. 11; Day 8/6 ; 10/. CENTRAL' B. 20; Day 12/6; Week 7:!./6. Week 50/-. GIBLlN'S, El" 'Square; B. 9; Day fr. 6/-; Week WHITE HORSE; B. 21; Day 11/6; Week 70/-. WICKLOW, Wicklow SI.; B. 45; Day 17/-. Week 35/- to 50/-. DROMAHAIRE (Leitrim). Week 105/-. GREAT SOUTHERN, Eyre Square; B. 78; Day ABBEY; B. 12; Day 12/-; Week 77/-. WYNN'S, Lr. Al>bey SI.; B. 75; Day T7/6; fr. 24/-; Week fr. 147/-. DUBLIN CITY. Week 105/-. CURRA'l'S, Eyre Square; B. 16; Day 7/6; Week 45/-. ABBOTSFORD (Private), Ha«'Ourt SI.; B. 30; DUNDALK (Louth). (See also ~[ount Pleasant). Day 10/-; Week 63/-. DlPERiAL, Eyre Square; B. 20; Day IS!-; BARRY'S, Gt. Denmark SI.; B. 35; Day 11/- ; DlPERIAL; ll. 33; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. Week SOlo. Week 70/-. DUNFANAGHY (Donegal). IVY (Eyre Street); B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 631-. BELVEDERE, Ntb. Gt. Genrge's St.; B. 20; PORT-NA-BLAGH; n. 34; Day 13/0; Week O'NEILL'S, Eyre Square; B. 24; Day 9/ Day 12/6; Week 70.'-. 70/- to 84/-. Week 50/-. 273 IRhH TR 4. VEl, 111ly, 1930 Carrick-on-Shannon FOR YOUR O\..\DAY in Bush Hotel ~ IRELAND FULLY LICENSE APPOINTED BY A.A., R.I.A. &: l.T.A. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY HOTELS at Convenient Stop for Motorists BUNDORAN, CO. D cgal From DUBIJIN to Dvnegal, Sligo, Mayo. On the Atlantic Seaboard : Accommodation fOl" 120 guests: ! From BELFAST to Mayo, Galway and 18-hole Golf Links in Hotel Grounds the South. Bathing, Boating, Tennis, Fishing. Every Modem Amenity :: ROUGH SHOOTING AND FISHING and GREENORE, CO. Louth Hot and Cold Water in all Bedrooms :: Free Garage On Carlingford Lough :: Facing the Mourne Mountains. Telephone 14 Accommodation for 50 guests. Excellent Cuisine and Service. 18-hole Golf Course adjoining. M. E. McDERMOTT, Proprietress. Write to Resldenl Managers; or Great 1I0rlhern Railway, Dublin or Belrast '---W-e-h-a-v-e---:P:;-\easure i~ Announcing \ Portmarnock Hotel that PORTMARNOCK. CO. DUBLIN THE Fully Licensed Finest Position Facing Sea ~ CLARENCE EXCELLENT CUISINE HOTEL Dublin PERSONAL SUPERVISION Wellington Quay, will Elre/rie Light Throughout. DEfiNITELY l'RIVA'l'E'1'BNNlS. FREE GARA.GE. RE-OPEN THIS MON rH Close to Portmarnoek Golf Course of 18 Holes. * InstaUe wodern con- ~ //)~""'Q' very latestdt':eitb onlyClarencetbe / ._' veniences last word in MODERATE I eLUSIVE TARIFF O. \ :~lde~e th~to_date Hotels ~nup _ .!. APPLICATION. Telephone ______O'KEEFFE'S _ Malah-ide 3. July, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL ROYAL, Eyre Square; B. 50; Day 15!-; Week KILGARVAN (Kerry). r. IMPERIAL; B. 12; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. 84/-. CLO TOO HOUSE; Day 10/-; Week 45/- to .>0/-. ~IeCARTHY'S, Ceeil St.; B. 6; Day 9/-; Week WESTERN, Prospect Hill; B. 17; Day 10/-: KILKEE (Clare). , 63/-. Week 50/- to 63/-. BURCHETT'S. Westehff; B. 10; Day 10,6 to NATIONAL, O'Counell SI.; B. 25; Day 10/6; GARRETSTOWN STRAND (Cork). 1°/6' Week 6~/- to 70;-. Week 70/-. ATLA TIC; B. 20; Day 10/-; Week 60/. ROYAL MARINE; B. 60; Day 10/- to 15/-; RAILWAY, Parnell SI.; B. 25; Day 12/-: We d O'NEILL'S; B. 24; 15/6; Week 84/-. Week 63/- to 90/-. 70/-. GLANDORE (Colk). ~IOORE'S; B. 3;;; Day 15/-; Week 84/. LIMERICK JUNCTION (TIpperary). KILFINNA CASTLE; B. 11; Day fr. 16/-; PURTlLL'S; B. 12; Day 8/6 to 10/-; Week RYAN'S; B. 20; Day 12/6; Week iO/-. Week fr. 91/6. 45/- to 60/-. , f LISDOONVARNA (Clare). ~IARINE; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 50/-. STELLA ~lARIS; B. 20; Day 11/-; \\ eek r. IMPERIAL; B. 60; Week 94/6 to 10;'!-. MRS. TRAVERS; B. 9; Day 12/6; Week 63/ IRISH AR~[S; B. 23; Day 9/6; Week 66!-. to 70/-. W~T END; B. 30: Day 101- to 12/-; Week LYNCH'S; B. 37; Day 12/-; Week 63/- to 70/-. GLENBEIGH (Kerry). 42/- to 80/-. SPA; B. 30; Day 14/-; Week 73/6 to 90/-. EVANS'; B. 18; Day 12/6; Week 73/6. KILKENNY (KIlkennyl. LISTOWEL (Kerry). ROSS VIEW; B. 20; Day 9/-; Week 60/-. CLUB HOUSE HO rEL; B. 2:;; Bed and Break- LISTOWEL ARMS; B. 20; Day 12/6 to 15/-; GLENCAR (Kerry). l~f~~~{X'L; Week 84/- to 9Ol-. GLENCAR; B. 20; Day 10/6; Week from iO/-. 13. 21; Week iO/- tu 84!-. CENTRAL (Galvin's): B. I!; Day 9/6; Week 42/-. GLENDALOUGH ·(Wlcklow). KILLALOE (Clare)_ LOUISBURGH (Mayo). 1~/- ROYAL; B. 23; Day fr. 14/-; Week fr. 63/-. LAKESIDE; 13. 15; Day to 15/-; Week McDERMOTT'S; B. 13; Day 10/6; Week 63/.-. GLENEALY (Wicklow). iO/- to 84/-. OLD HEAD; B. 16; Day 17/6; Week 1156. JOLLEY'S; ~. 16; Week fr. 5~,·. KILLARNEY (Kerry). LOUGHREA (Galway). ALEXANDRA; B. 20; Day 1~/6; Week 63/- CENTRAL; B. 11; Week 35/- to 42/-. GLENGARRIFF (Cork). COMMENCIAL; B. 11; Day 9/-; Week 50/ CASEY'S; B. IG; Day 10:6 to 11/6; Week 63/- AJBJo/US, College SI.; B. 30; Day 12;·; Week LUCAN (Dublin). to 70/-. NATIONAL SPA AND HYDRO; B. 44; Day ECCLES'; B. 51; Day 17/6; Week fr. 105/-. cl~'~iE; B. 14; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. fr. 18/-; Week 126/-. GOLF LINKS; B. 28; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. MAAM CROSS (Galway). POULGORM (Harvey's); B. 14; Day 12/-; CLIFFORDS; B. 8; Day LO'-; Week /10/-. COUNTRY CLUI3; B. 10; Day fr. 15/-; Week PEACOCK'S; B. 11; Day 12/-; Week 84/-. Week 70/·, TULLABOY HOUSE; B. 8; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. ROCII E'S; B. 45; Day fr. I G/-. n~NL'3t·College Square: B. 15; Day 10.6; MACROOM (Cork). GLENMALURE (Ralhdrum, Co. Wicklow). Week 70/-. VICTORIA: B. 11; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. <"LEN~IALURE; B. I~: Day 12/6: Week 63/-. GLEBE: B. 34: Day 15/6; Week ~4/6. ,. MALLARANNY (Mayo). GLEN 0' THE DOWNS (Wicklow). GREAT SOUTHERN; B. 78; Day Ir. 2,,·, GREAT SOUTHERN; B. 44; Day fr. 24/-; Week GLEN VIEW; B. 10; Day IG/-; Week 84/-. fr. 14i/-. lltG.~~iry·~~2.;ilegeSq.; B. 10; Day S/-; Week MALIN HEAD (Donegal). GLENTIES (Donegal). O'DOHERTY'S; B. 20; Day 15/-; Week fr. 70/ O'DONNELL'S; B. 21; Day 12/6; Week 7Gl-. Dt~~R[AL, College Sq',are; B. 12; Day fr. 12/-; MALINMORE (Glencolumbkllle, Donegal). GLIN (LImerick). GLENBAY; B. 12; Day 12/6; Week 75/- CONWA Y'S; B. 10; Day 10/-. IN~~:Ee~N~f-ioNAL, Kenmare Place; B. 44; MALLOW (Cork). GOC~'I~~~IR~~~L; Da,. 1.>/-; \Veek 9Oi-. , CENTRAL; B. 20; Day 12/6; Week 84/-. B. 10: Day 12/5; Week 70/·. KENMARE ARMS, College SI.; n. 12; Day 10 -; ROYAL; B. 28: Day 13/6; Week 73/6. ROYAL; B. 10; Oay 10/-_ Week 6O/-. GORTAHORK (Donegai). MIDLETON (Cork). LAKE; B. 65; 0,,)' fe. 15.0" • MIDLETON AR.\IS; B. 8; Day 12/-; Week 75/ MeFADDEN'S; B. 11; Day 10/-; Week 63/. MODERN, Fairvie\\' Sq.; B. 1~: Day /6; \\ eek GOUGANE BARRA (Cork). MIDDLETOWN (Derrybeg). CRONIN'S; B. 10; Day 8/6; Weck 50/-. FRIEL'S (Errigal View); B. 12; Day 7/- to 8!· ~I~~KROSS; B. 40: Day lOt.-; Week 1O~:-. Week 40'- to 50/-. GOUGANE BARRA; B. 11; Day 10/-; Week PARK PLACE; B. 20; Day Il1,6; Week Ir. 65/-. ~leNELIS;' ~/-; 63/-. B. 9; Day 7/- to Week 40/- to SCOIT'S; B. 20; Day fr. 12/6; Week f::. 70/-. 50/-. GREENCASTLE (Donegal). SPILLANE'S; B. 9; Day 9/-; Week 55/-. DRUMAWEIR; B. 16; Day 12/6; Wcek 63/- MlLFORD (Donegal). Kl~~:f W:b~~RRAGA; MILFORD (McCreadie's); B. 16; Day 15/ F~~Pi10TEL; B. 20; Day 14/6; Week 73/6. B. 12; Week 84/- to Week 105/-. GREENORE gLoUlh). Si.26~Eih"f;tk1"stoG"fr~~ MILLTOWN (Dlngle, Kerry). GREAT N RTHERN; B. 30; Day 16/-; Week HOUSE; B. 8; THE HOTEL; B. 12; Day 7/6; Week 42 _. 106/-. Week fr. 60/-. MlTCHELSTOWN (Cork). GREYStONES (Wicklow). KIfi~f~~~ CO~DIERCIAL; B. 12; nay 9/- to 10/6; Week GRAND; B. 56; Day fr. 22/6; Week fr. 94/6. ;(K;:.ry{Z; Day 11/-; Week 63/-. 60/- to 70;-. LEWIS' CENTRAL; B. 36 ; Day 10/6; Week 60/-, KILLYBEGS (Donegal). BAY VIEW (Rogers); B. 27; Day 12/6; Week MOHILL (leitrim). GWEEDORE (Donegal). KNOTT'S; B. 14; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. THE GWEEDORE; B. 20; Day IP-/6; Week FI6JJri'.~C:'itiIouSE; B. 9; Day 12/- to 14/-; MONAGHAN (Monaghan). Week 73/6 to 84/-. ORIEL; B. 10; Day 8/6; Week 55/-. DJ:LEWY; B. 12; Week 50/- to 60/-. KILLESHANDRA (Cavan). MONASTERADEN (Sligo). HEADFORD (Galway). CASSIDY'S; B. 10; Day 10/6; Week 60/-. LOUGH GARA; B. 14; Day 10/6: Week 63/-. MeCORMACK'S; B. 9; Day 12/-; Week 84/-. KlLMUCKRlDGE (Gorey, Wexlord). MONKSTOWN (DUblin). HOWTH (Dublin). THE HYDRO; B. 15; Week fro 105/-. SALTHILL; B. 60; Day 21/-; Week 105/-. CLAREMONT; B. 32; Day 15/- to 17/6; Week KINSALE (Cork). SEABANK; B. 10; Day 14/6; Week 84/-. 84/- to 105/-. _ MURPHY'S; B. 14; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. MOUNTCHARLES (Donegal). DALRIADA; B. 12; Day 9/-; Week 50/- to 5//6. KNOCK LONG (Limerick). MeINTYRE'S; B. 10; Day 10/6; Week 50/ ROYAL; B. 16; Day 12/6; Week 60/- to 73!6. RAILWAY; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. to 60/-. ST. LAWRENCE; B. 30; Day 15/-; Week 94/6. KYLEMORE (Connemara). SEAMOUNT; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 80/-. WAVERLEY (Summit); B. 2I:l; Day 12/-; Week KYLEMORE ABBEY GUEST HOUSE; B. 20; MOUNT PLEASANT (Dundalk, Co. Louth). 70/- to 80/-. Day 12/-; Week 70/-. MOUNT OLIVER; B. 13; Day 10/6; Week INCH (AnaseauJ, Kerry). fr. 63/-. SOUTHERN; B. 16; Day 8/- to 11/-; Week L\HJ~~~CJ~e)ARMS; B. 32; Day 14/-; Week MOVILLE (Donegal). 55/- to 63/-. MeKI NEY'S; B. 11; Day 7/6; Week 45/-. STRAND; 8. 11; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. 84/- to 94/6. TREACY'S; B. 15; Day 8/-; Week 50/-. LINNANE'S (Private); B. 22; Day 12/6; Week MULLINGAR (Westmeath). INNISCRONE (Sligo). See ENNISCRONE. 63/-. INVER (Donegal). LARAGH (Annamoe, Wicklow). CENTRAL; B. 12; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. DRUMBEG; B. 28; Day 15/-; Week 84/- to LARAGH HOUSE; B. 50; Day fr. 16/6; Week GREVILLE ARMS; B. 15; Day 14/-; Week 105/-. fr. 63/-. KEALKIL (Hantry). fr. 94/6. MIDLAND; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. HURLEY'S; B. 7; Day 8/-; Week 55/-. LAYTOWN (Mealh). MULLAGHMORE (ClIlfoney, Co. Sligo). KENMARE IKerry). ALVERNb; B. 15; Day 12/6; Week 7G.'-. HANNON'S; B. 27; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. DUNKERiwN CASTLE (Guest House); B. 9; MURRISK (Westport). LEs"JE~'S; B. 9; Day 9.'-; Week 50!-. CROAGH PATRICK (Murrisk); B. 9; Day 8/6 G~e~~. B. 25; Day fr. 24/-; LEENANE (Galway). to 10/-; Week 50/- to 60/-. S:6u':'MlliN; NAAS (Kildare). Week fr. 129/6. 0' LEENANE; B. 40; Day fr. 1 /6; Week fr. 94/5. MURPHY'S; B. 10; Day 7/6; Week ~-r .. LETTERKENNY (Donegal). NAS-NA-RIOG; B. 14; Week 50/-. LANSDOWNE ARMS; B. 26; Day 12/6; \\ eek CENTRAL; B. 11; Oa} 10/-; Week fr. 50/-. OBERSTOWN HOUSE; Week fr. 63/-. GALL\.GHER'S; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week fr. TBiMI S; B. 6; Day 12/-; Week 55/-. RXWDLE'S (Private); B. 15; Day 7!6 to 9/-; NAVAN IMeath). Week fr. 52/6. M~;\RRY'S; B. 11; Day I~/-; Week 63/-.- CE TRAL; B. 14; Day 11/-; Week 63/-. O'SULLlVAN'S; B. 13; Day fr. 7/6; Week NENAGH (Tipper 'y). fr. 50/-. LIMElUut< (LImerick). CA~tEL; B. 14; Day 10/-: Week 63/-. KILBEGGAN (Westmeath). CENTRAL; B. 10; Oay 10/6; Week 63/-. HIBERNIAN; B. 15; Day 11/-; Week 70/ VOLUNTEER (lluekley's); B. 12; Day 10/-; CRUl E'5. O'CollUell St.; B. 50; Day 18 _; to 84/-. Week 42/-. Week 105/-. O'MEARA'S; B. 24; Day 11/6. OES~IONO; B. 20; Day 12,6; Week 80/-. NEWCASTLEWEST (Limerick). KILC\JLLEN (Kildare). <..EOHGE (ROYAL), O'Counell St.; H. 33 Day CENTRAL; B. 11; Day 10/6; Week GO/-. LlOS (LUANA (<.ouest House); B. 2; Week 63/- . 1>3/-; Week 126/-. NEWPORT (Mayo). KI~~~~A(~I~da~~)'12; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. GLENTWORTH, <"Ienl\\'orth St.; 13. 50; Day DEVINE'S; B. 5; Day 10/-; Week 70/-. 15/6; Week 10;;/-. NEW ROSS (Wexlord). KILDYSART \Clare). llANRATfY'S, Glenl\lOrth SI.; 13. ~O; Day ROYAL; B. 18; Day 16/-; Week 100/- lo llD/ MeMAlION 5; H. 8; Day 8/6; Week 50/-. 12,6; Week iO/- to 80/-. GLOBE; 13. 10; Day 9/-; Week 50/-. 275 IRISH TRA VEL July, 1939 OUGHTERARD (Galway). SALTHILL (Galway). HIBERNIAN; B. 20; Day fr. 10/- ; Week fr. 60/-· ANGLERS'; B. 15; Day fr. 12/-; Week fro 84/.. DAWN; B. 8; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. DE LUXE; B. 14: Day 12/-; Week Ir. 70/-. CORRIB (late Railway); B. 20; Day 14/-; Week EGLlNTON; B. 62; Day 18/6; Week 11,,/6 MAJESTIC; B. 34; Day fr. 15/-; Week fr. 84/-. 94/6 to 105/·. EIRE; D. 2(); Day 10/6; Week 63/-. MURPHY'S ATLANTIC; B. 22; Day 12/-; LOUGH CORRlE; B. 11; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. ~INCOR"'; B. 16; Day 11/- to 12/-; Week 70'-. Week 84/-. PORTACARRON LODGE (Guest House)' B 9' SfELLA MARIS; B. 21; Day 11/-; Week 60:- Day 13/6; Week 73/6. '., SHALLOE'S ATLANTIC; B. 18; Day fr. 10/-; to 70/-. Week fr. 60/-. PARNKASILLA (Kerry). BA NB.-\. (Miss Geraghty's)' B. 22' Day 12/6' GREAT SOUTHERN; B.60; Day fr. 2,,/-; Week Week 84/-. " , TRIM (Mealh). CENTRAL; B. 12; Day Week fr. 147/-. ROCKLANO; B. 10; Day 15/-; Week 94/6. 0/-; 50/-. PETTIGO (DoneI11\. SUMMER-SET; B. 14; Day 10/- to 12/-; Week RAILWAY; B. 8; Day 10/6; Week 75/" FLOOD'S; B. 12; Day 9/-. 70/-. TUAM (Galway). PORTARLlNGTON (Laolghls). TOURISTS'; B. 18; Day 12/- to 14/-; Week CORA; R. 8; Day 14/-; Week 70/-. O'CONNOR'S; B. 0; Day 10/-' Week 50/-. 60/- to 70/-. TULLAMORE (Offaly). PORTLAOIGHlSE (Laolghls). ' WAR~ICK; B. 32; Day 15/-; Wee" 84/-. BOLGER'S; B. 21; Day 8.'6 to 10/-; Week ~2/' AlRO'S CENTRAL; B. 18; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. WARD S (Private); B. 18; Day fr. 10/11; Week to 63!-. HIBERNIAN (Relly's); B. 25' Day 12/-' Week fr. 50/-. HAYES; D. 2~; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. 70/-. " SHANKILL (Co. Dub!ln'. TULLOW Carlow). PORTMARNOCK (Dublin). SHANGANAGH CASTLE; B. 12; Day 17/6; SLANEY; B. 9; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. PORTMARNOCR; B. 34; Day 15/-; Week 84/ . Week fr. IM/-. UPTOI! (Wexford). See KUmuckrldge. PORTNOO (Donegal). SKERRIES (Dublin). URLINGFORD (Kilkenny). THE PORTNOO; B. 20; Day 14/-; Week 70/ GRA,NO; B. 18; Day fr. 12/-; Week fr. 75/-. HARRINGTON'S; B. 9; Day f'o"~; Week 42/-. to 84/-. ROCKVILLE HOUSE; D. 8; Day 10/6; Week VIRGINIA (Cavan). PORTSALON (Donegal). 63/-. CAROLAN'S; B. 12; Day fr. 6/U ; Week 42,' PORTSALON; B. 70; Day 18/-; Week 126/-. MARINE; B. 12; Day fr. 12.'6; Week 73/6. to 63/-. PORTUMNA (Galway). SKIBBEREEN (Cork). VALENTlA ISLAND (Kerry). CLONWYN; B. 17; Day 12/6; Week 73/6. ELOON; B. 15; Day 12/6; Week 80/-. ROYAL; B. 40; Day 12/6 to 15/-; Week 73/6 THE HYDRO; B. 6; Day 0/6; Week 55/-. SLANE (Meath). to 94/6. RATHDRUM (Wlcklowl. CONYNGHAM ARMS; B. 10; Day 11/6; Week WATERFORD (Waterford). BARRY'S; B. 18; Day fr. 8/-; Week 55/-. 63/-. ADELPHI; D. 25; Day 12/6; Week 63/-. RATHMULLAN (Donegal). SLIGO (Sligo). RAND ORA HOUSE; B. 8; Day 6/-; Week 32(.-. PIER; B. 12; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. GRAND; B. 32; Day 14/6; Week U"/-. GRAN VILLE; B. 68; Day 14/-; Week 94,6. RATHNEW (Wleklowl. GREAT SOUTHERN; B. 40; Day fr. 21:-; METR OPOLE; R. 15; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. NEWRATH BRIDGE (Hunter';); B. 18; Day Week fr. 147/-. WATERVILLE (Kerry). 14/-; Week SO/-. IMPERIAL; B. 25; Day 13/6; Week lJ4/6. BAYVIEW; B. 37; Day fr. 12/6; Week fr. 70/-. RENVYLE (Connemara). RAMSA Y'S; B. 12; Bed and Breakfast 6/6. BUTLER ARMS; B. 63; Day fr. 13/-; Week RENVYLE HOUSE; B. 45; Day fr. 15/-; Week SHERIDAN'S; D. 14; Day 12/-; Week SO.'-. 75/- to 100/-. fr. 105/·. SNEEM (Kerry)_ FOLEY'S; B. 16; Day 10/-; Week fr. 56/-. ROSAPENNA (Donegal). MORIARTY'S; B. 12; Day 7/6 to 10/-; Week SOUTHERN LAKE; R. 31; Oav fr. 12/6; ROSAPENNA; B. 88; Day fr. 21/-; Week fr. 50/-. Week fI-4/- to 105/-. - 147/-. H RLEY'S; B. 7; Day 7/6; Week 40/-. WESTPORT (Mayo). ROSBEG (Donegal). SPA (Tralee). BATH (Roman IsIaud); B. g; Day 8/6 to 9/6; OAWROS BA Y; D. 2fi; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. RENT LODGE; B. 4; Day 10/-; Week 5,./-. Week f>O/- to M/-. ROSCOMMON (Roscommon). STRANDHILL (Sligo). WEXFORD (Wexford). GREALY'S; B. 17; Day 15/-; Week 70/-. STRAND HOUSE; B. Ill; Day 7/-; Week 45/ CLANCY'S; B. 14; Day 12/-; Week 63/- to 84'" ROYAL; B. 23; Day 15/-; Week 73/6. to 60/-. TALBOT; B. 36; Day 12/-; Week 75/-. ROSCREA (Tipperary). STAR OF THE SEA; B. 20 ; Oav 8/-; Week 45/-' WHITE'S; D. 60; Week fr. 84/-. CENTRAL; B. 14; Day 11/6; Week 70!-. ST. PATRICK'S; B. 14; Day '9/-; Week 45/-: WHITEGATE (Cork). ROSLEA (Easkey). STRANORLAR (Donegal). CORKBEG HOTEL HYDRO; D. 15; Day 1M-: KENNY'S, .. Hotel Seafield "; D. 14; Day 10/-; KEE'S; B. 12; Day 12/-; Week 63/-. Week 105/-. Week fr. 42/-. SWINFORD (Mayo). WICKLOW. ROSSBEIGH (Kerry). O'CONNOR'S; B. 14; Day fr. 8/-; Week 63/-. MARfNE; D. 12; Day 7/6; Week 40/-. SLIEVE CORRIG; D. 10; Day 7/6 to W-; Week TEMPLEMORE ~IPperary). WOODENBRIDGE (WIcklow). 52/6 to 63/-. TH~li~s;~~~. WOODENBRlDGE; B. 14; Day 14/-; Week ROSSES POINT (Sligo). . 14; Day 10/·; Week 40/ . 84/-. GOLF LI KS; B. 18; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. NORE VIEW; D. 15; Day 8/6; Week 42/-. VALLEY; B. 11: Day 11/-; Week fiS/-. ROSSLARE STRAND (Wexford). THURLES (Tipperary). YOUGHAL (Cork). CEDARS (Private); B.16; Day 9/-; Week fr. 50/-. HAYES'; ll. 40; Day 14/-; Week 84/ . ATLANTtC; n. 20; Day fr. 13:6; Week 8'/-· ETCHINGHAM'S ; B. 16; Day 9/-; Week 60/-. TINAHELY (Wicklow). DEVONSHIRE ARMS; B. 14; Day 13/-; Week GOLF; B. 30; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. MURPHY Sf' B. 7; Day 8/6; Week 52/6. 84/-. HARBOUR VIEW; B. 8; Day 9/-; Week 50.'-. TIPPERARY ( Ipperary). THE ESPLANADE; B. 16. STRAND; D. 40; Day fr. 13/6; Week fr. 84/-. OOBBYN'S, Bank Place; D. 30; Day 12/6; GREEN PARK; D. 45; Day 12/-; Week 84/" ROSSLARE HARBOUR (Wexlord). Week 70,. MONATREA; D. 20; Da}' 13/-; Week 81/-. PIER; B. 20; Day 12/6; Week 63/-. ROYAL, Bridge Street; n. 31; pay 16/6; Week PACIFIC; D. 18; Day 14/-; Week 84/" ROSSNOWLAGH (Donegal). M/-. PARK VIEW; B. 18; Day 10/-; Week 68/-. COOLMORE HOUSE; B. 8; Day 10/6; Week TRALEE (Kerry). SUMMERFIELO; B. 10; Week 55/-. 60/-. BENNER'S; B. 40; Day fr. 17/-; Week fr. 90/-. RO"NDSTONE (Galway). GRAND; B. 40; Day 16/-; Week 90/-. PrIvate Hotels. KINTON'S; B. 9; Day 10/-; Week 70/-. IMPERIAL; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 50/-. AVONMORE; Day P/·; Week 00/- to 6&:-. O'OOWO'S; Day 9/- to 10/6; Week 6)/- to 63/-. MEAOOWLANOS INN (Mrs. Peet); B. 15; HARBOUR VIEW; B. 18; Day 7/6 to 9/6; SHAMROCK; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. Day 10/6; Week 63/-. Week 63/-. ROUND WOOD (Wicklow). PARK; B. 15; Day 9/-; Week 55.'-. STELLA MARIS; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 50/- KEENAN'S; B. 7; Day 7/6; Week 42/-. TRAMORE Walerlord). SUNMOUNT; B. 26. ROUNOWOOO; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. GRAND; B. 65; Day 21/-; Week 126/-. AVONOHU HOUSE; B. 8. - TRINITY STREET OARNA, CONl\EMARA, CO. GALWAY MOIRA H OTE L, DUBLIN RESTAURANT OPEN SUNDAYS. GRILL ROOM. RESTAURANT. BAR BUFFET. OYSTER BAR. MONGAN'S HOTEL SMOKE LOUNGE. A la Carle and Table d'Hole Meals Flsrt-e1ass Fllblnl and Shoollng. Thousandl of orel of RouCh Telephone 446li1l. j Shoollnl. Mounlaln, RIver, Lake, Sea. Garace. Owned aDd Managed by JURY'S HOTEL, LTD. J. W. MONGAN, ProprIetor. I Dublin. NORTH STAR HOTEL, ~:~r~:{~~: OUGHTERARD, CO. GALWAY. Full)' LIcensed. 50 BedrooDll. Mosl Cenlral Poslllo • COMFORT. RESTAURANT. T~e CORRIB HOT6L LEANLINESS. COFFEE ROOM. Five minutes' walk fro'" Lough Corrib. Bcst Free Salmon Fisbi~ iD IVILITY. SMOKING LOUNGE. Ireland; also Trout. Pike, anrl Perch. Garage; Motors for ire A la Carle and Table d'Hole Meals .. Reslauranl Open on Sundays• Excellent situ'ltion and !'pecial terms for winter residents. A.A., R.t.A.C., For Tariff apply Alanager. Telegrams: .. I'\ORSTAR, Ol;BLIN:' and l.T.A. app>int-nents. Also, Lougb Corrib Hotel• E. A. SWEENEY, ProprietoJ. CARRIGLEA HOUSE - Overlooking Lakes, KILLARNEY I MANNING'S GARAGE U,.rivalkd in situation, facing Lakes, own Groum.t.; .. CLIFDEN .. Electric Light; Hot & Cold Running Water in all Rooms; Dus stops at Gate; Day, 12/-; Week, 75/-; Tennis and Under Personal Supervision Garage Free. One mile Railway Station. Furnished Annsu 'llsched, To Lel May-Sepl. and Wlnler monthl. Phono: Clifdon 10 A.A" '" It.LA,G. . July, 1939 1 R I S 11 TRAVE J. THE SERVICES OF THE 8l1anlrc GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY Sxcupsions (IRELAND) ------reach------U.S.A. & CAI ADA • IRELAND'S PRINCIPAL HEALTH AND J ~E 26th TO JULY 23rd HOLIDAY RESORTS ; and another GOLFING, ANGLING, BOATING, ETC., 25 EXTRA EXCURSIONS DISTRICTS. SEPT. 25th TO OCT. 29th Never has there heen a more opportune time for a holiday trip to America ... wonderful programme of tours including visits to the BUNDORAN WARRENPOINT New York World' Fair .. . •. book ROSTREVOR and NEW now for a 6,000 miles cruising holiday to Co. Donegal, lapped by the United States and Canada .... or take blue waters of the Atlantic. CASTLE - The Mourne a.dvantage of these special fares for a visit Ideal Health and Pleasure Di~trict. Mountain, Lough, to Nassau, Florida, Be,'muna, or tho West Resort. Splendid Golfing ! Woodland and Sea. Parti Indies. and Fishirg facilitiei<. cularly interesting to the Motor Tours. geologist, botanist and EXCURSION FARES nature lover. from £28 return (third class) For further parlicl!lars apply to your;locat ROSAPENNA & DROGHEDA agent or Cunard Whit- Star Ltd., West For the picturesque Boyne Beach. Cobh. (; Lower Abbey Street, PORTSALON. Situated Dublin, C.8 or Pier Tlead, T,iverpool. amidst scenery of unsur Valley, so intimately associ passed beauty. The Donegal ated with the early history Highlands. of Ireland. Cuoal~d Wbila Slat' PORTRUSH & ENNISKILLEN PORTSTEWART. Invigor ,I For Lough Erne -" The ating Health. Giant's Killarney of the North." Causeway. Seven-Days Motor Coach Tour Caledonian Hotel OF SOUTH GREAT GEORGE'S STREET Northern Ireland, Donegal Highlands, etc. Including Hotel Accommodation DUBLIN. , (Every Saturday, 3rd June to 2nd September) I Centrally situated for all parts of City. CIRCULAR TOURS BY RAIL OR ROAD TOURIST TICKETS to Principal Seaside and Holiday Resorts on G.N.R. system Hot and Cold Water all Rooms, SPECIALLY REDUCED FARES for Pilgrims travelling to the Island Sanctuary at and Reading lJights all Beds. LOUGH DERG ETC. ETC. Excellent Cuisine. HOTELS BED, BREAKFAST, and BATH, 7/6. BUNDORAN:GREENORE:ROSTREVOR Managed by the Company Garage for 80 Cars, 150 yards, 1/- Nightly. Guides, etc., can be obtained from the Traffic Manager, Belfast; District Superintendent, Amiens Street Station, Dublin, or Principal Tourist Agencies. Telegrams :-" Caledonian Hotel," Dublin. GEO. B. HOWDEN, Telephone 28277. General Manager. IRISH TRAVEL July, ICj39 A for Happy H olldays BEAUTY SPORT • HISTORY OMANCE - - I You may travel by any of ~the RESORTS SERVED BY GREAT following steamship routes~ SOUTHERN RAILWAYS f I ACHILL ARKLOW AVOCA ATHLO TE HOLYHEAD KINGSTOWN 1 BALLINA . BRAY. BM TRY. BALLYBUNION 1 LIVERPOOL DUBLIN BALLYVAUGHAN . BLARNEY . BUNDORAN I CASHEL . CARAGH LAKE • CASTLECONNELL FISHGUARD ROSSLARE CASTLEGREGORY CLONAKILTY CORK COBH COURTMACSHERRY CLIFDEN FISHGUARD WATERFORD CONNEMARA. CLO MEL . DUN LAOGHAIRE FISHGUARD CORK DALKEY . DUNMORE . DUNGARVAN . DINGLE FOYNES • GLE BEIGH (for Rossbeigh Strand) GREYS TON ES GLENDALOUGH By whichever route you travel you are sure of GLENGARRIFF GALWAY KILLINEY a fast, comfortable journey by modem turbine KENMARE KILLARNEY KILLALOE steamers. Luxurious express trains connect the KILKEE LIMERICK LAHINCH Ports of both HOLYHEAD and FISHGUARD LIS D 0 0 N V A RNA MALLARANNY with all the important centres of population and MULL J NGAR MILTOWN-MALBAY industry and the Holiday Resorts of Great PARKNASILLA . ROSSLARE . SCHULL . SLIGO Britain. The trains of the Great Southern TRAMORE VALENCIA WESTPORT Railways Company connect with the steamers, WICI(LOW \VOODENBRIDGE YOUGHAL HOTELS OF DISTI CTIO Under Great Soothern Railways' 'Management. These Hotels are replete with every comfort, and are beautifully situated 'midst the gorgeous scenery of the South and Wel\t. TIle Tariffs are moclerate. Combined Rail and Hotel Tickets issued. THE RAILWAY CHAIN OF.HOTELS Killarney Parknasilla Kenmare Galway Mallaratmy. Sligo Ill'UBlroled Gv;de.' 10 Holiday Resorts, Proorornrnu for 'l'ollrs and Information respeclino passenoer servicu can be had on a1J7JlicaJion 10 : .Abm. Altham. Ltd., BurnJey • The .American Express Company's Offices - J. Barter & Sons, Cork - Thos. Cook & Sons' Offices. Co.-op. Wholesale Society Ltd., 99, Leman st., London, E.l, and OffiOOEl • Dean & Dawson's Offices - Frameq' OffiCI'. - Oreat SoutLern Railways Information Bureau, 33 Bal'beJor's Walk, Dublln • Great Western RaiJw",y, Paddinrlon, London - G. litlUernan, 21 South Mall, Cork - t1ewett's Office, D'OJier Street, Dublin· IntRrnatlonal Travel Bureau, 19, Commercial BIdgs., Dame Streoo.t, Dublln - Irish Tourist .Association, O'Connell Street. Duhlin - The Irish Travel Agenl'Y, 1\ D'OUer Street, Dublin - M. K. Kendall, Ltd., 14 Eldon Street, London, E.C.• General Traffic Manager, Associated British and Irish Railway., Inc.... 9 Rocketeller Plaza, 14 We~t 49th Street, New York - 333 North Michigan .Ave., ChJcago - Park central BuUding-s 41~ Sixth :;t., Los Anll'le.· 202, Canadian Pacific Bldg~., King and Yonge St.., Toronto - 1010 St. Catherine's ". ~t .• Montreal. London, Midland and dcoUIRh Railway. Euston, London - Lalrdways, Ltd., l7 Pall Mall, London, S.W.l - Wm. H. Muller & Coy. (Lonfion). Ltd., Greener House, 66-68 Haymarket, London, S.W.l . Plckfords', Ltd.. Offices - The PolytecbnJc Touring A.ssociation, 309 Regent Stree1. London, N.W.l - Cha~. RJckards Ltd., 12 Spring Street. London, W.\! - C. S. RobinBon, Post Office, Cheetham Hili, Manchester, 8· L. R. Stanton, Oldham • Travellers, LImJted. 46 Cro~s Street, Manchester, and 41 Temple Row, BirmJnghun • Traffic Manager, KJngs bridge, Dublin - Twobig Travel Agency, 43 Dame Street, Dublln • Workers' Travel Association, "Ltd., Transport House, Smith Square, London, l'l.W.l. Publisbed by tbe Proprietors, IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION, Ib Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin,.and printed by THE JUVERr.:A PRESS, LTD., 12 Upper ." Liffey Street, DublIn, ' Otber Offices of tbe IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATlON:-Lond",,-ijl/17 ]ermyr Street, S.W.ll Cork-25 Patrick Str•••• PltllfTBD III IIl1!:LANDYOUGHAL" ..' first or the hundredth time you know you have come i YOUGHAL This ideal all-the-year round health into a world where all picture values are different, all resort is matchless (OT sun, sea and bracing air. The Hotel, overlooking the standards rendered meaningless. You have 'seen those ocf>an, is home·like and charming, and water colours of Kerry in the London shop-windows ~PACIFIC.YOUClHA&.' wi th all up-to-date appointments. GOLF, TENNIS, FISHING, SHOOTING, and have probably condemned them for exaggeration. HUNTING, ETC. A., ru.A.c APPO' ..T .....TO:. The truth is that the blue of those painted mountains (Miss) A. MEA DE, Proprietress. is but the washiest copy of the real, that incredible colour that floods all that exquisite county in radiance, not even dimmed by rain." THE GRAND HOT [Jolm Priol an in The Observer (Lonrlon). Junc, IN WICKLOW TOWN. 1!l3!-l]. ThiS Hotel is beautifull} situated in its own grounds and is an ideal centre for touring County Wicklow. Visitors are assured of good food and of lar~e airy bedrooms, all of You Don't Have to Push on a Door. which have a fine outlook. Private Tennis. Fully Licensed. Free lock-up Garages. 'Phone, Wicklow 37. Appl}' : Prop. " You don't have to push on a big thick door to walk into the garden of Ireland. " Ireland's beauty greets you with open anns as you step off the boat. At the end of my first day I am still within a stone's throw of the harbour where I landed TOURISTS this morning. Tipperary and Killarney must wait. J[1RE PRIVATE AuTOS Here, at Dun Laoghaire, I have found the peace I crave. ~~;3~0~ I have found scenery beautiful enough to stir the stolidest IN CHARGE OF heart. EXPERIENOED DRIVERS "This afternoon I climbed a high hill to the south HIGH-CLASS ENCLOSED SALOON CARS. of this harbour town, a hill which overlooks picturesque J Open Day and Night. Dalkey, an artist's dream village. From the summit I had a magnificent view of sea, valley and mountain. WESTBROOK MOTOR CO. For two hours I stayed there with hot sunshine scorching my cheeks." Ford Dealers 89/90 Parnell St., Dublin I [Wayfarer, ill Yorhhire El'ening NI'U'ii, J,eedR, ServIce aDd ParkJng StatIon at 69A Talhot St. __ :.\ray, 193!ll STONE OF DESTINY ~urio5itie5 ~rounb 3Jrelanb